The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe : : From Inquisition to Inquiry, 1550–1700 / / Barbara Fuchs, Mercedes García-Arenal.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020
• VerfasserIn: Fuchs, Barbara ,; García-Arenal, Mercedes,
• MitwirkendeR: Cañete, Carlos,; Fuchs, Barbara,; García-Arenal, Mercedes,; Johnson, Paul Michael,; López-Terrada, María Luz,; Mackay, Ruth,; Mediano, Fernando Rodríguez,; Patiño Loira, Javier,; Stirling-Harris, A. Katie,; Tutino, Stefania,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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 -- 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 -- THE UCLA CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY SERIES