{"product_id":"the-quest-for-certainty-in-early-modern-europe-from-inquisition-to-inquiry-1550-1700-hardback-9781487507060","title":"The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe; From Inquisition to Inquiry, 1550-1700 (Hardback) 9781487507060","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFrom Inquisition to Inquiry, 1550-1700\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBarbara Fuchs (Author), Mercedes García-Arenal (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487507060\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 4 March 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.6 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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 \u0026amp;lt;em\u0026amp;gt;CHOICE\u0026amp;lt;\/em\u0026amp;gt; that renders the individual articles particularly intriguing.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Vincenzo Lavenia, Università di Bologna (\u003cem\u003eJournal of Jesuit Studies\u003c\/em\u003e) \"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. \u003cem\u003eThe Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe: From Inquisition to Inquiry, 1550–1700\u003c\/em\u003e, is a worthy addition to this corpus.\" - Gretchen Starr-LeBeau, Principia College (\u003cem\u003eJournal of Modern History\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe \u003c\/i\u003ereconstructs the complexity of early modern epistemological debates across the disciplines, in a variety of cultural, social, and intellectual locales.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eMercedes García-Arenal\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI. Staging Inquisitions: Nature, Culture, Religion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Trusting the \"I\": Picaresque Confession and Early Modern Scepticism\u003cbr\u003eBarbara Fuchs\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Feeling Certainty, Performing Sincerity: The Emotional Hermeneutics of Truth in Inquisitorial and Theatrical Practice\u003cbr\u003ePaul Michael Johnson\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Conflicting Certainties or Different Truths: Healers and Inquisition in Baroque Spain\u003cbr\u003eMaría Luz López Terrada\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. True Peste and False Doors: Medical and Legal Discourse during the Great Castilian Plague, 1596–1601\u003cbr\u003eRuth MacKay\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Policing Talent in Early Modern Jesuit Rome: Difference, Self-Knowledge, and Career Specialization \u003cbr\u003eJavier Patiño Loira\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eII. Negotiating History and Theology\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Stolen Saint: Relic Theft and Relic Identification in Seventeenth-Century Rome\u003cbr\u003eA. Katie Stirling-Harris\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Baptizing \"Uncertain Human Beings\"? Probabilist Theology and the Question of the Beginning of Human Life in Seventeenth-Century Catholicism\u003cbr\u003eStefania Tutino\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Truth and Human History in Melchor Cano\u0026amp;#x2019;s De locis theologicis \u003cbr\u003eFernando Rodríguez Mediano\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. 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