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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.

Publication

Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

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Additional Authors

• Morrill, J. S. (John Stephen)
• Slack, Paul
• Woolf, D. R. (Daniel R.)

Description

viii, 347 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

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.

Uniform Title

University press scholarship online.

Subject

• Political ethics > England > History > 17th century
• Ethics, Modern > 17th century
• Great Britain > Politics and government > 1603-1714

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography of the writings of G.E. Aylmer: p. [325]-333.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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 v̀ulger 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.

ISBN

0198202296 :

LCCN

^^^92032519^

OCLC

26586531

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library