Medusa's Gaze. Casuistry and Conscience in the Renaissance

orig.cloth Minor rubbing, VG., dustwrapper Frontispiece 22x14cm, (8),331pp Contents: Introduction: Casuistry in the Elizabethan Church-State; or, The Ambiguities of Ideological Colonization; Part I: Victims of Conscience In and Around Elizabeth's Court: The Text of Casuistry in Elizabeth's Discourse of Power: Misreading the Conscience of the Queen; The 'Foro Interno' Outside Gloriana's Court: Honest Dissimulations in the Commonwealth; Reading & Misreading the Body Politic: The Conscience of Anthrony Tyrrell, Spy and Apostate; Part II: The Discourse of Conscience in the Elizabethan Canon: The 'Siene Sieve' Portrait & Book 5 of 'The Fairie Queene': Vanishing Points, Aphasiac Readers, and the Rhetoric of the Lax Conscience; "Tempering by just proportions good venims from evill":The Secret Pharmacy of Equity in Spenser's Narrative; Self-Cancelling Cases of Conscience: Britomart, Artegall, and the Transgressive Simile; On Not Representing the Queen's "Answer Answerlesse": The Politics of Dissimulation & Allegory in the Trial of Duessa; Tropes of Conscience: Gyges's Ring; Spenser's 'Legend of Justice', and Novelistic Discourse. Minor rubbing, VG., dustwrapper.…