The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe: From Inquisition to Inquiry, 1550-1700

by Barbara Fuchs, Mercedes Garc?a-Arenal, Mercedes García-Arenal

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487507062
• ISBN13: 9781487507060
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 8.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher