The Dark Side of Knowledge - Histories of Ignorance, 1400 to 1800

Thoroughly researched contributions from conferences at Harvard and Paris on coping with ignorance in late medieval and early modern administrative practices, science, literature and the arts, are tightly connected by a new theoretical framework on how to historicize ignorance.

About the author

Prof. Dr. Cornel Zwierlein, since 2008 Univ. Bochum, PhD 2003 LMU Munich/CESR Tours; Fellow Harvard History 2013-2016. Monographs Discorso und Lex Dei, 2006; Der gezähmte Prometheus, 2011; forthcoming The Political Thought of the French League (Droz, Geneva) and Imperial Unknowns (Cambridge UP).

Product details

• Authors: Cornel Zwierlein
• Assisted by: Cornel Zwierlein (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.06.2016
• EAN: 9789004325128
• ISBN: 978-90-04-32512-8
• No. of pages: 454
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 32 mm
• Weight: 854 g
• Series: Intersections
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918