Argument and Authority in Early Modern England: The Presupposition of Oaths and OfficesConal Condren offers a radical reappraisal of the character of moral and political theory in early modern England through an exploration of pervasive arguments about office. In this context he explores the significance of oath-taking and three of the major crises around oaths and offices in the seventeenth century. This fresh focus on office brings into serious question much of what has been taken for granted in the study of early modern political and moral theory concerning, for example, the interplay of ideologies, the emergence of a public sphere, of liberalism, reason of state, de facto theory, and perhaps even political theory and moral agency as we know it. Argument and Authority is a major new work from a senior scholar of early modern political thought, of interest to a wide range of historians, philosophers and literary scholars. |
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... authority and insolence of office 7 The cases of patriot and counsellor 149 8 Casuistry as the mediation of office 172 9 The case of resistance to superior power 186 10 Metaphor and political autonomy 209 Part III : ' I , A. B. ' 11 An ...
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... authority . As the enlistment of the vocabulary of office could often be loose and now appears forced and fancifully metaphorical , part II con- cludes by explicating some of the problems involved in dealing with metaphors of office ...
... authority . As the enlistment of the vocabulary of office could often be loose and now appears forced and fancifully metaphorical , part II con- cludes by explicating some of the problems involved in dealing with metaphors of office ...
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Contents
An overview | 15 |
Ceremonies of office The kiss of the tuttiman | 36 |
Institutionalised office a sense of the scavenger | 54 |
The vocabulary of office | 80 |
Offices of the intellect player poet and philosopher | 105 |
Soul and conscience | 125 |
The authority and insolence of office | 147 |
The cases of patriot and counsellor | 149 |
I A B | 231 |
An overview of the oath in seventeenthcentury argument | 233 |
Coronation oaths | 254 |
The oath of allegiance of 1606 | 269 |
Engagement with a free state | 290 |
The oath of allegiance and the Revolution of 16889 | 314 |
Epilogue | 343 |
Bibliography | 353 |
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