Morgan Clarke is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Keble CollegeEmily Corran is Lecturer in Medieval History at University College London

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• Introduction: rules and ethics – Morgan Clarke and Emily CorranPart I: Rules enabling moral life1 Conscience is tradition: classical Hindu law and the ethics of conservatism – Donald R. Davis, Jr.2 Manners and morals: codes of civility in early modern England – Martin Ingram3 Control of the self and the casuistry of vows: Christian personal conscience and clerical intervention in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries – Emily CorranPart II: Rules and virtue4 Rules and the unruly: Roman exemplary ethics – Rebecca Langlands5 ‘For the love of God’? The First Commandment and sacramental confession in early modern Catholic Europe – Nicole Reinhardt6 Counting good and bad deeds under military rule: Islam and divine bookkeeping in Nablus (Palestine) – Emanuel SchaeublinPart III: Rules about rules7 Tactics of transformation: self-formation and the multiplicity of authority in Polish conversions to Judaism – Jan Lorenz8 Conscience and action in the Islamic madhhab-law tradition – Talal Al-Azem9 Comparing casuistries: rules, rigour and relaxation in Islam and Christianity – Morgan ClarkeAfterword – James LaidlawIndex

Morgan Clarke is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Keble CollegeEmily Corran is Lecturer in Medieval History at University College London

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• Introduction: rules and ethics – Morgan Clarke and Emily CorranPart I: Rules enabling moral life1 Conscience is tradition: classical Hindu law and the ethics of conservatism – Donald R. Davis, Jr.2 Manners and morals: codes of civility in early modern England – Martin Ingram3 Control of the self and the casuistry of vows: Christian personal conscience and clerical intervention in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries – Emily CorranPart II: Rules and virtue4 Rules and the unruly: Roman exemplary ethics – Rebecca Langlands5 ‘For the love of God’? The First Commandment and sacramental confession in early modern Catholic Europe – Nicole Reinhardt6 Counting good and bad deeds under military rule: Islam and divine bookkeeping in Nablus (Palestine) – Emanuel SchaeublinPart III: Rules about rules7 Tactics of transformation: self-formation and the multiplicity of authority in Polish conversions to Judaism – Jan Lorenz8 Conscience and action in the Islamic madhhab-law tradition – Talal Al-Azem9 Comparing casuistries: rules, rigour and relaxation in Islam and Christianity – Morgan ClarkeAfterword – James LaidlawIndex