Threatened knowledge : practices of knowing and ignoring from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century /: practices of knowing and ignoring from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Renate Dürr.
• Editors: Dürr, Renate, 1961-
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Practices of Knowing and Ignoring from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century Renate Dürr Part 1. Negotiating Uncertainties and the Reliability of Knowledge 2. What (not) to Read in Times of Crises. Responses to the First Index of Banned Books (c.500 to c.1100) Irene van Renswoude 3. Precarious knowledge and the Problem of Reliability: the case of prognostic texts in the Carolingian period Carine van Rhijn 4. "Doubt all before you believe anything": Stock Market Speculation in the Early Twentieth Century United States Daniel Menning Part 2: Creating and Misunderstanding References 5. Knowledge and Violence in a Society Under Stress: Death Penalty Under Charles the Bald (843–877) Warren Pezé 6. Global Encounters – Precarious Knowledge: Traces of Alchemical Practice in Indonesian Batavia Martin Mulsow 7. Biculturalism, Multiculturalism and Indigeneity as a Strategy of Memoria. Canada and Australia Defining Themselves in Times of Threat Sebastian Koch Part 3: Knowing and Ignoring as Reciprocal Answers 8. Rhetoric and Divination in Erasmus’s Edition of Jerome: Ancient and Modern Ways to Save Dangerous, Vulnerable Texts Anthony Grafton 9. "Ignorance is power, as well as joy": Trying to Manage Information in turn-of-the century America Susan J. Matt and Luke Fernandez 10. Corresponding Knowledge: Arguments about Emotions and Entertainment in Berlin and Cairo around 1900 Joseph Ben Prestel
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 121.09; Knowledge, Theory of -- History; Knowledge, Sociology of; Ignorance (Theory of knowledge); Intellectual life -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000452044; 9781000451986; 9781003057413
• Related ISBNs: 9780367523237; 9780367523176
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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