Barbara Fuchs, Mercedes García-Arenal

The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe

From Inquisition to Inquiry, 1550-1700

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Produktbeschreibung

Reflecting on humanity’s shared desire for certainty, this book explores the discrepancies between religious adherence and inner belief specific to the early modern period, a time marred by forced conversions and inquisition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 165mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9781487507060
• ISBN-10: 1487507062
• Artikelnr.: 58569369

Autorenporträt

Barbara Fuchs is a professor of Spanish and English at UCLA.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Mercedes García-Arenal
I. Staging Inquisitions: Nature, Culture, Religion
1. Trusting the "I": Picaresque Confession and Early Modern Scepticism
Barbara Fuchs
2. Feeling Certainty, Performing Sincerity: The Emotional Hermeneutics of
Truth in Inquisitorial and Theatrical Practice
Paul Michael Johnson
3. Conflicting Certainties or Different Truths: Healers and Inquisition in
Baroque Spain
María Luz López Terrada
4. True Peste and False Doors: Medical and Legal Discourse during the Great
Castilian Plague, 1596-1601
Ruth MacKay
5. Policing Talent in Early Modern Jesuit Rome: Difference, Self-Knowledge,
and Career Specialization
Javier Patiño Loira
II. Negotiating History and Theology
6. Stolen Saint: Relic Theft and Relic Identification in
Seventeenth-Century Rome
A. Katie Stirling-Harris
7. Baptizing "Uncertain Human Beings"? Probabilist Theology and the
Question of the Beginning of Human Life in Seventeenth-Century Catholicism
Stefania Tutino
8. Truth and Human History in Melchor Cano’s De locis theologicis
Fernando Rodríguez Mediano
9. Ambivalent Origins: Isaac La Peyrère and the Politics of Historical
Certainty in Seventeenth-Century Europe
Carlos Cañete