Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book

Title Public duty and private conscience in seventeenth-century England : essays presented to G.E. Aylmer / edited by John Morrill, Paul Slack, and Daniel Woolf
Published Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993

Copies

Description 1 online resource (viii, 347 pages) : illustrations
Contents Gerald Aylmer at Balliol / Christopher Hill -- Gerald Aylmer in Manchester and York / Gordon Leff -- Gerald Aylmer as a scholar / Austin Woolrych -- Cases of conscience in seventeenth-century England / Keith Thomas -- Public duty, conscience, and women in early modern England / Patricia Crawford -- Private conscience and public duty in the writings of James VI and I / Kevin Sharpe -- Divine rights in the early seventeenth century / Conrad Russell -- The conflicting loyalties of a vĖ€ulger counselor' : the Third Earl of Southampton, 1597-1624 / Neil Cuddy -- The public conscience of Henry Sherfield / Paul Slack -- William Dowsing, the bureaucratic Puritan / John Morrill -- A man of conscience in seventeenth-century urban politics : Alderman Hoyle of York / Claire Cross
The King's servants : conscience, principle, and sacrifice in armed Royalism / P.R. Newman -- Conscience, constancy, and ambition in the career and writings of James Howell / Daniel Woolf -- Official members in the Commons, 1660-1690 : a study in multiple loyalties / John Ferris -- William Penn's odyssey : from child of light to absentee landlord / Richard S. Dunn -- A select bibliography of the writings of G.E. Aylmer, 1957-1990 / William Sheils
Summary "The tension between public duty and private conscience is a central theme of English history in the seventeenth century, when established authorities were questioned and violently disrupted. It has also been an important theme in the work of one of the foremost historians of the period, G.E. Aylmer. It makes, therefore, an especially appropriate subject for this volume." "The contributors are leading historians, all of whom are friends, colleagues, or former students of Gerald Aylmer. Their topics range from contemporary writings on conscience and duty to the particular problems faced by individuals and groups, both Puritan and Royalist, at the centre and in the localities. These scholarly and original studies throw new light on the innumerable dilemmas of conscience of men and women during this period, and together make a distinguished contribution to seventeenth-century history."--Jacket
Analysis Politics Ethics History
England
Bibliography Bibliography of the writings of G.E. Aylmer: pages 325-333
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
English
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
Print version record
Subject Political ethics -- England -- History -- 17th century
Ethics, Modern -- 17th century.
Ethics, Modern.
Political ethics.
Politics and government
Overheid.
Geweten.
Openbaar bestuur.
Politieke ethiek.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1603-1714. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056891
Subject England.
Great Britain.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Morrill, J. S. (John Stephen)
Slack, Paul
Woolf, D. R. (Daniel R.)
ISBN 9780191675270
019167527X