
Voices of Conscience
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- Introduction
- Part I: Christian princes, counsellors, and confessors
- 1: Councils and counselling: Institutions
- 2: Counsel and councillors: Debates
- 3: Royal confessors as counsellors: role and expertise
- Part II: Royal Sins: definitions and transformations (ca. 1550-1650)
- 4: Identifying Royal sins
- 5: The end of just war as we know it?
- 6: Taxes - old and new
- 7: Acceptio personarum: justice, favours, and merit
- Part III: Counsels of Conscience
- 8: Confessors at work
- 9: A case study: The Expulsion of the Moriscos
- 10: Favourites and confessors
- Part IV: How to be a Royal Confessor: from prophecy to ecclesiastical history
- 11: Confessors: courtiers and prophets?
- 12: Being Seneca - Stoic Lessons
- 13: The confessor's paradox
- Part V: The Eloquence of Silence
- 14: The crisis of counsel of conscience
- 15: The scandalous confessor
- 16: Privatizing royal conscience
- Epilogue: the politics of private sins - the 'privatisation' of politics
- Sources and Bibliography
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