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The Renaissance Conscience

Harald E. Braun (Editor), Edward Vallance (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4443-3566-8
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176 pages
May 2011, Wiley-Blackwell
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Notes on contributors ix

Introduction (Harald E. Braun and Edward Vallance) 1

1 Jean Gerson, moral certainty and the Renaissance of ancient Scepticism (Rudolf Schüssler) 11

2 Conscience and the law in Thomas More (Brian Cummings) 29

3 'Guided By God' beyond the Chilean frontier: the travelling early modern European conscience (Andrew Redden) 52

4 Shakespeare's open consciences (Christopher Tilmouth) 67

5 Women's letters, literature and conscience in sixteenth-century England (James Daybell) 82

6 The dangers of prudence: salus populi suprema lex, Robert Sanderson, and the 'Case of the Liturgy' (Edward Vallance) 100

7 The Bible, reason of state, and the royal conscience: Juan Márquez’s El governador christiano (Harald E. Braun) 118

8 Spin doctor of conscience? The royal confessor and the Christian prince (Nicole Reinhardt) 134

Index 157

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