Examining works by well-known figures of the English Revolution, including John Milton, Oliver Cromwell, Margaret Fell Fox, Lucy Hutchinson, Thomas Hobbes, and King Charles I, Giuseppina Iacono Lobo presents the first comprehensive study of conscience during this crucial and turbulent period.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Revolutions of Conscience
Chapter 1: Charles I, Eikon Basilike, and the Pulpit-Work of the King’s Conscience
Chapter 2: Oliver Cromwell and the Duties of Conscience
Chapter 3: Early Quaker Writing and the Unifying Light of Conscience
Chapter 4: Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan and the Civilizing Force of Conscience
Chapter 5: Lucy Hutchinson’s Revisions of Conscience
Chapter 6: Milton’s Nation of Conscience
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography