Format:
1 online resource (303 pages)
ISBN:
9781487535506
Series Statement:
UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
Content:
Reflecting on humanity's shared desire for certainty, this book explores the discrepancies between religious adherence and inner belief specific to the early modern period, a time marred by forced conversions and inquisition.
Content:
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Facing Uncertainty in Early Modern Iberia -- Part 1: Staging Inquisitions - Nature, Culture, Religion -- 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 -- Part 2: Negotiating History and Theology -- 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.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781487507060
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781487507060
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487535506
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487535506
