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1 online resource (vi, 292 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
UCLA Clark Memorial Library series ; 28
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UCLA Clark Memorial Library series ; 28.
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Places of publication taken from publisher's website. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"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 recontextualizes the production of knowledge in the early modern period (1550-1700), focusing on the social and institutional dimensions of inquiry in light of political and cultural challenges. The collection explores how uncertainties about religious identities (and even the status of irreligion) challenged traditional modes of learning. As knowledge of all sorts was integrated into different traditions in a context of unprecedented religious questioning, institutions and texts sought new means of controlling and regulating "truth." Questions of representation became newly fraught as the production of knowledge increasingly challenged established orthodoxies."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Religion and civilization -- History -- 17th century.
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Religion and civilization. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
17th century |
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Religion and science -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.
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Religion and science. |
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Europe. |
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Certainty -- History -- 17th century.
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Certainty. |
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Europe -- Civilization -- 17th century.
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Civilization. |
| Chronological Term |
1600-1699 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Fuchs, Barbara, 1970- editor.
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García-Arenal, Mercedes, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Quest for certainty in early modern Europe from inquisition to inquiry, 1550-1700. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : 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 1487507062 9781487507060 (OCoLC)1123215812 |
| ISBN |
9781487535506 electronic book |
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148753549X electronic book |
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9781487535490 electronic book |
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1487535503 electronic book |
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9781487507060 cloth |
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1487507062 |
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