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Introduction: War, Conscience, and Counsel in early modern Catholic Europe (2014)
Journal Article
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

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... Read More about Introduction: War, Conscience, and Counsel in early modern Catholic Europe.

Just War, Royal Conscience and the Crisis of Theological Counsel in the Early Seventeenth Century (2014)
Journal Article
Reinhardt, N. (2014). Just War, Royal Conscience and the Crisis of Theological Counsel in the Early Seventeenth Century. Journal of Early Modern History: Contacts, Comparisons, Contrasts, 18(5), 495-521. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700658-12342427

This article explores how scholastic just war theories and concepts of theological counsel became increasingly problematic in the run-up to the Thirty Years War. It identifies increasing conceptual difficulties due to probabilism, religiously inspire... Read More about Just War, Royal Conscience and the Crisis of Theological Counsel in the Early Seventeenth Century.