Contents

pp v-vi

List of figures

pp vii-vii

List of contributors

pp viii-viii

Preface

pp ix-x

Introduction: Rules and ethics

pp 1-34

Part I - Rules enabling moral life

pp 35-36

1 - Conscience is tradition: Classical Hindu law and the ethics of conservatism

pp 37-58

2 - Manners and morals: Codes of civility in early modern England

pp 59-79

3 - Control of the self and the casuistry of vows: Christian personal conscience and clerical intervention in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries

pp 80-100

Part II - Rules and virtue

pp 101-102

4 - Rules and the unruly: Roman exemplary ethics

pp 103-123

5 - ‘For the love of God’?: The First Commandment and sacramental confession in early modern Catholic Europe

pp 124-144

6 - Counting good and bad deeds under military rule: Islam and divine bookkeeping in Nablus (Palestine)

pp 145-166

Part III - Rules about rules

pp 167-168

7 - Tactics of transformation: Self-formation and the multiplicity of authority in Polish conversions to Judaism

pp 169-189

8 - Conscience and action in the Islamic madhhab-law tradition

pp 190-210

9 - Comparing casuistries: Rules, rigour and relaxation in Islam and Christianity

pp 211-233

Afterword

pp 234-242

Index

pp 243-246