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The dark side of knowledge : histories of ignorance, 1400 to 1800 /
Thoroughly researched contributions from conferences at Harvard and Paris on coping with ignorance in late medieval and early modern administrative practices, science, literature and the arts, are tightly connected by a new theoretical framework on how to historicize ignorance.--
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2016.
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| Colección: | Intersections : Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture ;
46 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction: Towards a History of Ignorance
- 1 Law and the Uncertainty of Value in Late Medieval Marseille and Lucca / Daniel Lord Smail
- 2 Nescience and the Conscience of Judges. An Example of Religion's Influence on Legal Procedure / Mathias Schmoeckel
- 3 Speaking Nothing to Power in Early Modern Germany: Making Sense of Peasant Silence in the Ius Commune / Govind P. Sreenivasan
- 4 Coping with Unknown Risks in Renaissance Florence: Insurers, Friars and Abacus Teachers / Giovanni Ceccarelli
- 5 (Non-)Knowledge, Political Economy and Trade Policy in Seventeenth-Century France: The Problem of Trade Balances / Moritz Isenmann
- 6 Ignorance in Europe's State Financial Culture (Eighteenth Century) / Marie-Laure Legay
- 7 Voluptas Carnis. Allegory and Non-Knowledge in Pieter Aertsen's Still-Life Paintings / John T. Hamilton
- 8 Humanist Styles of Reading in the Prologues and Epilogues of William Caxton / Taylor Cowdery
- 9 Coexistence and Ignorance: What Europeans in the Levant did not Read (ca. 1620-1750)
- 10 Ignorance about the Traveler: Documenting Safe Conduct in the European Middle Ages / Adam J. Kosto
- 11 International Crises as Experience of Non-Knowledge: European Powers and the 'Affairs of Provence' (1589-1598) / Fabrice Micallef
- 12 Dealing with Hurricanes and Mississippi Floods in Early French New Orleans. Environmental (Non-) Knowledge in a Colonial Context / Eleonora Rohland
- 13 'Unknown Sciences' and Unknown Superiors. The Problem of Non-Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Secret Societies / Andrew McKenzie-McHarg
- 14 Specifying Ignorance in Eighteenth-Century Cartography, a Powerful Way to Promote the Geographer's Work: The Example of Jean-Baptiste d'Anville / Lucile Haguet
- 15 Semantics of the Void: Empty Spaces in Eighteenth-Century German Historiography. A First Sketch of a Semiotic Theory / Lucian Hölscher
- 16 Non-Knowledge and Decision Making: The Challenge for the Historian / William O'Reilly
- Index nominum
- Index rerum.