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- Title
THE BURDEN AND CONSCIENCE OF GOVERNMENT IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.
- Authors
Catto, Jeremy
- Abstract
This study argues that the experience of government, though more clearly articulated after 1400, did not engender realpolitik and made princes and ministers, both the old nobility of service and the newer graduate careerists, more acutely aware of issues of conscience. It traces the anxieties provoked by political experience, their relation to the new spiritual literature addressed to persons with active responsibility, and their resolution after 1410 in a new, tough, realistic but morally sensitive approach to government, associated above all with Henry V of England.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; TITLES of honor &; nobility; ARISTOCRACY (Social class); POLITICAL culture; ARISTOCRACY (Political science); POLITICAL science; DUTIES of kings &; rulers; FIFTEENTH century; REIGN of Henry V, England, 1413-1422
- Publication
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 2007, Vol 17, p83
- ISSN
0080-4401
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0080440107000540