Rules and Ethics

Introduction: rules and ethics - Morgan Clarke and Emily Corran
Part I: Rules enabling moral life
1 Conscience is tradition: classical Hindu law and the ethics of conservatism - Donald R. Davis, Jr.
2 Manners and morals: codes of civility in early modern England - Martin Ingram
3 Control of the self and the casuistry of vows: Christian personal conscience and clerical intervention in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries - Emily Corran
Part II: Rules and virtue
4 Rules and the unruly: Roman exemplary ethics - Rebecca Langlands
5 'For the love of God'? The First Commandment and sacramental confession in early modern Catholic Europe - Nicole Reinhardt
6 Counting good and bad deeds under military rule: Islam and divine bookkeeping in Nablus (Palestine) - Emanuel Schaeublin
Part III: Rules about rules
7 Tactics of transformation: self-formation and the multiplicity of authority in Polish conversions to Judaism - Jan Lorenz
8 Conscience and action in the Islamic madhhab-law tradition - Talal Al-Azem
9 Comparing casuistries: rules, rigour and relaxation in Islam and Christianity - Morgan Clarke
Afterword - James Laidlaw
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