Abraham Stoll is Professor of English at the University of San Diego. He is editing a new edition of Paradise Lost. He is author of Milton and Monotheism (2009) and has edited the five-volume edition of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (2006).

'Illuminating in a number of specific ways, and well worth the reader's time for them … bright moments can be found throughout the book. I recommend it happily…' John E. Curran, Jr, Modern Philology

• Introduction: thus conscience; 1. Destructuring: Aquinas, Luther, Perkins; 2. Spenser's allegorical conscience; 3. Con-science in Macbeth; 4. Casuistry and antinomianism; 5. Public discourses: toleration, revolution, sovereignty; 6. Milton's expansive conscience; Bibliography; Index.

Abraham Stoll is Professor of English at the University of San Diego. He is editing a new edition of Paradise Lost. He is author of Milton and Monotheism (2009) and has edited the five-volume edition of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (2006).

'Illuminating in a number of specific ways, and well worth the reader's time for them … bright moments can be found throughout the book. I recommend it happily…' John E. Curran, Jr, Modern Philology

• Introduction: thus conscience; 1. Destructuring: Aquinas, Luther, Perkins; 2. Spenser's allegorical conscience; 3. Con-science in Macbeth; 4. Casuistry and antinomianism; 5. Public discourses: toleration, revolution, sovereignty; 6. Milton's expansive conscience; Bibliography; Index.

Abraham Stoll is Professor of English at the University of San Diego. He is editing a new edition of Paradise Lost. He is author of Milton and Monotheism (2009) and has edited the five-volume edition of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (2006).

'Illuminating in a number of specific ways, and well worth the reader's time for them … bright moments can be found throughout the book. I recommend it happily…' John E. Curran, Jr, Modern Philology

• Introduction: thus conscience; 1. Destructuring: Aquinas, Luther, Perkins; 2. Spenser's allegorical conscience; 3. Con-science in Macbeth; 4. Casuistry and antinomianism; 5. Public discourses: toleration, revolution, sovereignty; 6. Milton's expansive conscience; Bibliography; Index.