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Voices of Conscience - Royal Confessors and Political Counsel in Seventeenth-Century Spain and France (Hardcover)
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Voices of Conscience - Royal Confessors and Political Counsel in Seventeenth-Century Spain and France (Hardcover)
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Voices of Conscience analyzes how the link between politics and
conscience was articulated and shaped throughout the seventeenth
century by confessors who acted as counsellors to monarchs. Against
the backdrop of the momentous intellectual, theological, and
political shifts that marked this period, the study examines
comparatively how the ethical challenges of political action were
confronted in Spain and France and how questions of conscience
became a major argument in the hegemonic struggle between the two
competing Catholic powers. As Nicole Reinhardt demonstrates,
'counsel of conscience' was not a peripheral feature of
early-modern political culture, but fundamental for the definition
of politics and conscience. Tracing the rise and fall of confessors
as counsellors reveals the parallel transformation of both,
approaching a historical understanding of the modernisation of
politics with the idea of an 'individual conscience' at its heart.
Placed at the junction of norms and practices, royal confessors,
directly or in oblique reflection, shaped the ways in which the
royal conscience was identified and scrutinized. By the same token,
the royal confessors' expertise and activities remained a source of
anxiety and conflict that triggered wide debate on the relationship
between State and Church, religion and politics. The notion of
'counsel of conscience', of which this book provides the first
in-depth analysis, allows the reader to re-examine and challenge
fundamental historical paradigms such as the emergence of
'absolutism', individualisation, and the division of public and
private. Putting theological concepts and religious dimensions back
into political theory and practice sheds new light, not only on the
importance of counselling for early modern statecraft, but also on
the reconfiguration of the normative frameworks underlying it.
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