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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.
Contents
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
