The quest for certainty in early modern Europe from inquisition to inquiry, 1550-1700 / edited by Barbara Fuchs and Mercedes García-Arenal.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fuchs, Barbara, 1970- editor.

García-Arenal, Mercedes, editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

UCLA Clark Memorial Library series ; 28.

UCLA Clark Memorial Library series ; 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and civilization--History--17th century.

Religion and civilization.

Religion and science--Europe--History--17th century.

Religion and science.

Certainty--History--17th century.

Certainty.

Europe--Civilization--17th century.

Europe.

Civilization.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 292 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, [2020]

Summary:

"How was the early modern pursuit of knowledge in very different spheres conditioned by a shared desire for certainty? How did this desire in turn link the epistemological crises produced by the religious upheavals of early modern Europe with the development of new scientific methods? This volume recontextualizes the production of knowledge in the early modern period (1550-1700), focusing on the social and institutional dimensions of inquiry in light of political and cultural challenges. The collection explores how uncertainties about religious identities (and even the status of irreligion) challenged traditional modes of learning. As knowledge of all sorts was integrated into different traditions in a context of unprecedented religious questioning, institutions and texts sought new means of controlling and regulating "truth." Questions of representation became newly fraught as the production of knowledge increasingly challenged established orthodoxies."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Quest for certainty in early modern Europe from inquisition to inquiry, 1550-1700.

ISBN:

9781487507060

1487507062

OCLC:

1123215812