Research Catalog

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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Details

Additional Authors

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

Description

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

Uniform Title

University press scholarship online.

Subjects

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

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