Read more
Informationen zum Autor Barbara Fuchs is a professor of Spanish and English at UCLA. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments IntroductionMercedes García-Arenal I. Staging Inquisitions: Nature, Culture, Religion 1. Trusting the "I": Picaresque Confession and Early Modern ScepticismBarbara Fuchs 2. Feeling Certainty, Performing Sincerity: The Emotional Hermeneutics of Truth in Inquisitorial and Theatrical PracticePaul Michael Johnson 3. Conflicting Certainties or Different Truths: Healers and Inquisition in Baroque SpainMaría Luz López Terrada 4. True Peste and False Doors: Medical and Legal Discourse during the Great Castilian Plague, 1596-1601Ruth 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 RomeA. Katie Stirling-Harris 7. Baptizing "Uncertain Human Beings"? Probabilist Theology and the Question of the Beginning of Human Life in Seventeenth-Century CatholicismStefania 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 EuropeCarlos Cañete
