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The quest for certainty in early modern Europe from inquisition to inquiry, 1550-1700 /
How was the early modern pursuit of knowledge in very different spheres conditioned by a shared desire for certainty? How did this desire in turn link the epistemological crises produced by the religious upheavals of early modern Europe with the development of new scientific methods? This volume rec...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Toronto] ; [Buffalo] :
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]
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| Colección: | UCLA Clark Memorial Library series ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Facing Uncertainty in Early Modern Iberia
- Staging Inquisitions : Nature, Culture, Religion. Trusting the "I" : The Uncertainty of Picaresque Confession in Guzmán de Alfarache ; Feeling Certainty, Performing Sincerity : The Emotional Hermeneutics of Truth in Inquisitorial and Theatrical Practice ; Conflicting Certainties or Different Truths? : Healers and Inquisition in Baroque Spain ; True Peste and False Doors : Medical and Legal Discourse during the Great Castilian Plague, 1596-1601 ; Policing Talent in Early Modern Jesuit Rome : Difference, Self-Knowledge, and Career Specialization
- Negotiating History and Theology. Stolen Saint : Relic Theft and Relic Identification in Seventeenth-Century Rome ; Baptizing "uncertain human beings"? : Probabilist Theology and the Question of the Beginning of Human Life in Seventeenth-Century Catholicism ; Truth and Human History in Melchor Cano's De locis theologicis ; Ambivalent Origins : Isaac La Peyrère and the Politics of Historical Certainty in Seventeenth-Century Europe.