Public duty and private conscience in seventeenth-century England : essays presented to G.E. Aylmer
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Public duty and private conscience in seventeenth-century England : essays presented to G.E. Aylmer
Clarendon Press, 1993
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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, whose 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 seventeenth-century men and women, and together make a distinguished contribution to seventeenth-century history.
Contributors: Christopher Hill, Gordon Leff, Austin Wollrych, Keith Thomas, Patricia Crawford, Kevin Sharpe, Conrad Russell, Neil Cuddy, Paul Slack, John Morrill, Claire Cross, P. R. Newman, Daniel Woolf, John Ferris, Richard S. Dunn, and William Sheils.
Table of 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 17th-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 17th century
- the conflicting loyalties of a "vulgar counsellor" - 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 17th-century urban politics - Alderman Hoyle of York, Claire Cross
- the King's servants - conscience, principles 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 1660-1689 - 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.
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