Williams, Ian S;
(2017)
Christopher St German: religion, conscience and law in Reformation England.
In: Hill, M and Helmholz, RH, (eds.)
Great Christian Jurists in English History.
(pp. 69-92).
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, United Kingdom.
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Abstract
This chapter reassesses Christopher St German's "Doctor and Student". After setting out St German's life, religious beliefs and theory of equity, it argues that we should see the work principally as a work directed to religious concerns. St German's concerns were principally spiritual. His discussion of human law and human courts was directed to showing that knowledge of this human law was required for confessors and individuals seeking to avoid sin. His concern was with individual conscience, rather than the institutional conscience of the Chancery.
| Type: | Book chapter |
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| Title: | Christopher St German: religion, conscience and law in Reformation England |
| ISBN-13: | 9781107190559 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781108125901 |
| Publisher version: | http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/law/... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Christopher st german, law and religion, law and theology, doctor and student, legal history, reformation, equity, conscience. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Laws |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1476739 |
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