Fictionalizing Heterodoxy : : Various Uses of Knowledge in the Spanish World from the Archpriest of Hita to Mateo Alemán.

• Author: Gernert, Folke.
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin/Boston : : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,, 2019.; {copy}2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (214 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Tratado de la divinança by Lope de Barrientos, in the European Context -- Physiognomy in Print and its Readers -- The Legitimacy of the Partially Occult Sciences, Physiognomy and Chiromancy in the Face of the Inquisition -- The Precariousness of Knowing the Occult: The Problematic Status of Physiognomy -- The Physiognomic Knowledge of the Archpriest of Hita -- The Problematic Competences of the Female Rogue: La Lozana Andaluza and La pícara Justina -- Predictive Astrology: From King Alcaraz to La Lozana Andaluza -- Miscellaneous Knowledge, Good and Bad, in a Book of Chivalry: the Baldo of 1542 -- The Accumulation of (un)useful Knowledge in the Moralistic Commentaries of the Baldo and the Guzmán de Alfarache -- Bibliography -- Index.