Threatened knowledge : practices of knowing and ignoring from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century /
Threatened knowledge : practices of knowing and ignoring from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century /
edited by Renate Dürr.
- volumes cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Practices of knowing and ignoring from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century / Renate Dürr -- What (not) to read in times of crises. Responses to the first Index of banned books (c.500 to c.1100) / Irene van Renswoude -- Precarious knowledge and the problem of reliability : the case of prognostic texts in the Carolingian period / Carine van Rhijn -- "Doubt all before you believe anything" : stock market speculation in the early twentieth century United States / Daniel Menning -- Knowledge and violence in a society under stress : death penalty under Charles the Bald (843-877) / Warren Pezé -- Global encounters--precarious knowledge : traces of alchemical practice in Indonesian Batavia / Martin Mulsow -- Biculturalism, multiculturalism and indigeneity as a strategy of memoria. Canada and Australia defining themselves in times of threat / Sebastian Koch -- Rhetoric and divination in Erasmus's edition of Jerome : ancient and modern ways to save dangerous, vulnerable texts / Anthony Grafton -- "Ignorance is power, as well as joy" : trying to manage information in turn-of-the century America / Susan J. Matt and Luke Fernandez -- Corresponding knowledge : arguments about emotions and entertainment in Berlin and Cairo around 1900 / Joseph Ben Prestel.
"Threatened Knowledge discusses the practices of knowing, not-knowing, and not wanting to know from the middle ages to the twentieth century. By bringing together cultural historians of the histories of knowledge, emotions, finance, and global intellectual history, Threatened Knowledge is a useful tool for all students and scholars of the history of knowledge and science on a global scale"--
9780367523237 9780367523176
Knowledge, Theory of
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)
Intellectual life
121.09 DUR.T
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Practices of knowing and ignoring from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century / Renate Dürr -- What (not) to read in times of crises. Responses to the first Index of banned books (c.500 to c.1100) / Irene van Renswoude -- Precarious knowledge and the problem of reliability : the case of prognostic texts in the Carolingian period / Carine van Rhijn -- "Doubt all before you believe anything" : stock market speculation in the early twentieth century United States / Daniel Menning -- Knowledge and violence in a society under stress : death penalty under Charles the Bald (843-877) / Warren Pezé -- Global encounters--precarious knowledge : traces of alchemical practice in Indonesian Batavia / Martin Mulsow -- Biculturalism, multiculturalism and indigeneity as a strategy of memoria. Canada and Australia defining themselves in times of threat / Sebastian Koch -- Rhetoric and divination in Erasmus's edition of Jerome : ancient and modern ways to save dangerous, vulnerable texts / Anthony Grafton -- "Ignorance is power, as well as joy" : trying to manage information in turn-of-the century America / Susan J. Matt and Luke Fernandez -- Corresponding knowledge : arguments about emotions and entertainment in Berlin and Cairo around 1900 / Joseph Ben Prestel.
"Threatened Knowledge discusses the practices of knowing, not-knowing, and not wanting to know from the middle ages to the twentieth century. By bringing together cultural historians of the histories of knowledge, emotions, finance, and global intellectual history, Threatened Knowledge is a useful tool for all students and scholars of the history of knowledge and science on a global scale"--
9780367523237 9780367523176
Knowledge, Theory of
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)
Intellectual life
121.09 DUR.T