Overview
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 upheavals of early modern Europe were also linked to the development of new scientific methods. Questions of representation became newly fraught as the production of knowledge increasingly challenged established orthodoxies. The volume focuses on the social and institutional dimensions of inquiry in light of political and cultural challenges, while also foregrounding the Hispanic world, which has often been left out of histories of scepticism and modernity. Featuring essays by historians and literary scholars from Europe and the United States, The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe reconstructs the complexity of early modern epistemological debates across the disciplines, in a variety of cultural, social, and intellectual locales.
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Author: Barbara Fuchs ,
Mercedes García-Arenal
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 3.00cm
, Length: 23.60cm
Weight: 0.600kg
ISBN: 9781487507060
ISBN 10: 1487507062
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 04 March 2020
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
""How did theology, medicine, law, natural science, exegesis and literature respond to the rising demand for credibility and truth? All nine essays in this volume adopt an approach we could call case-based, a CHOICE that renders the individual articles particularly intriguing."" -- Vincenzo Lavenia, Università di Bologna * <em>Journal of Jesuit Studies</em> * “Barbara Fuchs and Mercedes García-Arenal have distinguished themselves, not only as gifted scholars but also as notably successful collaborators and editors of collections of essays. Their previous volumes of essays demonstrate a consistently high quality of scholarship and a coherence of thematic focus. The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe: From Inquisition to Inquiry, 1550–1700, is a worthy addition to this corpus.” -- Gretchen Starr-LeBeau, Principia College * <em>Journal of Modern History</em> *
The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe is a truly outstanding collection of studies featuring an extraordinary bounty of archival and textual sources. Chapter after chapter, it turns what might otherwise have been dry theological debates into fascinating glimpses into the lives and works of theologians wrestling with what to do when faced with uncertainty. I have honestly never been as interested in issues of casuistry, probabilism, and jurisprudence as I have when reading the pages of this book. - John Slater, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Davis
Author Information
Barbara Fuchs is a professor of Spanish and English at UCLA. Mercedes García-Arenal is a research professor at Grupo de Investigación de Historia Cultural del Mediterráneo.
