Introduction: War, Conscience, and Counsel in early modern Catholic Europe

Reinhardt, Nicole

doi:10.1163/15700658-12342424

Introduction: War, Conscience, and Counsel in early modern Catholic Europe

Reinhardt, Nicole

Authors

Nicole Reinhardt

Abstract

The introduction identifies the framework of Catholic moral theology, which informs the specific approach of the authors in this special issue, as an important context to deepen the understanding of early modern just war discussions. Some of the most productive contributors to the debate in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were indeed Catholic moral theologians, who engaged with the question, driven by pastoral concerns over the conscience of subjects and rulers. The delegation of moral questions to theologians was an essential part of post-Tridentine Catholic culture which, however, eroded progressively in the seventeenth century as the tenets of moral theology as well as the external institutions of moral counsel attracted wide criticism.

Citation

Reinhardt, N. (2014). Introduction: War, Conscience, and Counsel in early modern Catholic Europe. Journal of Early Modern History: Contacts, Comparisons, Contrasts, 18(5), 435-446. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700658-12342424

Journal Article Type	Article
Online Publication Date	Jul 25, 2015
Publication Date	Jan 1, 2014
Deposit Date	Mar 2, 2015
Publicly Available Date	Mar 6, 2015
Journal	Journal of Early Modern History
Print ISSN	1385-3783
Electronic ISSN	1570-0658
Publisher	Brill Academic Publishers
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	18
Issue	5
Pages	435-446
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1163/15700658-12342424