Argument and authority in early modern England : the presupposition of oaths and offices / Conal Condren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Condren, Conal.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public officers--England--History--17th century.

Public officers.

Oaths--England--History--17th century.

Oaths.

Political culture--England--History--17th century.

Political culture.

History.

England.

Physical Description:

x, 399 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Contents:

Part I The liquid empire of office

2 Ceremonies of office: The kiss of the tutti-man 36

3 Institutionalised office: a sense of the scavenger 54

4 The vocabulary of office 80

5 Offices of the intellect: player, poet and philosopher 105

6 Soul and conscience 125

Part II The 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 overview of the oath in seventeenth-century argument 233

12 Coronation oaths 254

13 The oath of allegiance of 1606 269

14 Engagement with a free state 290

15 The oath of allegiance and the Revolution of 1688-9 314.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-390) and index.

ISBN:

0521859085

OCLC:

62532897

Publisher Number:

9780521859080