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.
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.
Barbara Fuchs is a professor of Spanish and English at UCLA.
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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
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
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