The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe : : From Inquisition to Inquiry, 1550–1700 /

The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe : : From Inquisition to Inquiry, 1550–1700 / / Barbara Fuchs, Mercedes García-Arenal.

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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 uphe...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020
VerfasserIn:
Fuchs, Barbara ,
García-Arenal, Mercedes,
MitwirkendeR:
Cañete, Carlos,
Fuchs, Barbara,
García-Arenal, Mercedes,
Johnson, Paul Michael,
López-Terrada, María Luz,
Mackay, Ruth,
Mediano, Fernando Rodríguez,
Patiño Loira, Javier,
Stirling-Harris, A. Katie,
Tutino, Stefania,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]
©2020
Année de publication:2020
Langue:English
Collection:UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
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Description matérielle:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table des matières:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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
  • THE UCLA CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY SERIES

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