Format:
1 Online-Ressource (vi, 292 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781487535506
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9781487535490
Series Statement:
UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series 28
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Facing Uncertainty in Early Modern Iberia -- 1. Trusting the “I”: The Uncertainty of Picaresque Confession in Guzmán de Alfarache -- 2. Feeling Certainty, Performing Sincerity: The Emotional Hermeneutics of Truth in Inquisitorial and Theatrical Practice -- 3. Conflicting Certainties or Different Truths? Healers and Inquisition in Baroque Spain -- 4. True Peste and False Doors: Medical and Legal Discourse during the Great Castilian Plague, 1596–1601 -- 5. Policing Talent in Early Modern Jesuit Rome: Difference, Self-Knowledge, and Career Specialization -- 6. Stolen Saint: Relic Theft and Relic Identification in Seventeenth-Century Rome -- 7. Baptizing “uncertain human beings”? Probabilist Theology and the Question of the Beginning of Human Life in Seventeenth-Century Catholicism -- 8. Truth and Human History in Melchor Cano’s De locis theologicis -- 9. Ambivalent Origins: Isaac La Peyrère and the Politics of Historical Certainty in Seventeenth-Century Europe -- Contributors -- Index -- THE UCLA CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY SERIES
Content:
This interdisciplinary collection explores how the early modern pursuit of knowledge in very different spheres – from Inquisitional investigations to biblical polemics to popular healing – was conditioned by a shared desire for certainty, and how epistemological crises produced by the religious upheavals of early modern Europe were also linked to the development of new scientific methods. Questions of representation became newly fraught as the production of knowledge increasingly challenged established orthodoxies. The volume focuses on the social and institutional dimensions of inquiry in light of political and cultural challenges, while also foregrounding the Hispanic world, which has often been left out of histories of scepticism and modernity. Featuring essays by historians and literary scholars from Europe and the United States, The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe reconstructs the complexity of early modern epistemological debates across the disciplines, in a variety of cultural, social, and intellectual locales
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
,
In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781487507060
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The quest for certainty in early modern Europe from inquisition to inquiry, 1550-1700 Toronto : published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2020 ISBN 9781487507060
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1487507062
Language:
English
Keywords:
Europa
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Spanien
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Religion
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Wissenschaft
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Erkenntnistheorie
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Gewissheit
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Geschichte 1550-1700
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Konferenzschrift
DOI:
10.3138/9781487535506
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