Public Duty and Private Conscience in Seventeenth-Century England Essays Presented to G. E. Aylmer |
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| Editor:
| Morrill, John
Slack, Paul
Woolf, Daniel |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-820229-5 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1993 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $218.14AUD $271.00 |
Book Description:
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The tension between public duty and private conscience is a central theme of English history in the 17th century. The scholarly studies in this volume throw new light on the innumerable dilemmas of conscience of men and women in this period when established authorities were questioned and violently disrupted.
The tension between public duty and private conscience is a central theme of English history in the 17th century. The scholarly studies in this volume throw new light on the innumerable dilemmas of conscience of men and women in this period when established authorities were questioned and violently disrupted.