Voices of conscience : royal confessors and political counsel in seventeenth-century Spain and France / Nicole Reinhardt.

Voices of conscience : royal confessors and political counsel in seventeenth-century Spain and France / Nicole Reinhardt.

First edition.

9780191772856 (electronic book)

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

English

1 online resource : illustrations.

BX2264

264.0208620094409032

This work examines the role of royal confessors as political counsellors in seventeenth-century Spain and France, and how, against the backdrop of the momentous intellectual, theological, and political shifts that marked this period, questions of conscience became a major argument in the hegemonic struggle between the two competing Catholic powers.

This work examines the role of royal confessors as political counsellors in seventeenth-century Spain and France, and how, against the backdrop of the momentous intellectual, theological, and political shifts that marked this period, questions of conscience became a major argument in the hegemonic struggle between the two competing Catholic powers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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