Science, Culture and Popular Belief in Renaissance Europe
Published on 11. July 1991
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-7190-2925-7 (ISBN)
Description
A collection of new essays focusing on science and cultural change, while exploring the interaction of traditional disciplines (theology, history, law) and the emerging empirical and mathematical science. It also draws upon material from magic, witchcraft and popular occultism.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-2925-7 (9780719029257)
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Content
Part I Reconstructing authority: remapping knowledge, reshaping institutions, Luce Giard; the history of science and the Renaissance science of history, Stephen Pumfrey; rhetoric and science/rhetoric of science/rhetoric as science, Maurice Slawinski; natural philosophy and its public concerns, Julian Martin; the church and the new philosophy, Peter Dear. Part II True learning, useful arts, foolish superstitions: science, culture and the dissemination of learning, Paolo L. Rossi; the challenge of practical mathematics, Jim Bennett; doctors and healers - popular culture and the medical profession, John Henry; the rational witchfinder - conscience, demonological naturalism and popular superstitions, Stuart Clark; astrology, religion, and politics in counter-Reformation Rome, Germana Ernst; astrology in early modern England - the making of a vulgar knowledge, Patrick Curry.