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1 online resource. |
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text file |
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Intersections : Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture ; 46
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Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; 46.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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.-- Provided by publisher. |
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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. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Ignorance (Theory of knowledge) -- History.
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Ignorance (Theory of knowledge) |
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History. |
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Ignorance (Theory of knowledge) -- Social aspects.
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Social aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Zwierlein, Cornel, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dark side of knowledge. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016 9789004325128 (DLC) 2016019823 |
| ISBN |
9789004325180 (electronic book) |
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9004325182 (electronic book) |
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9789004325128 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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