Ebook: Voices of conscience : royal confessors and political counsel in seventeenth-century Spain and France
Author: Reinhardt Nicole
- Tags: Confessors, History, 17th century, Spain, Kings and rulers, History, 17th century, France, Kings and rulers, History, 17th century
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- City: Oxford
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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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
Abstract: 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