Ways of Knowing: Ten Interdisciplinary Essays

243 Pages·2004·30.694 MB·English

by  Mary Lindemann

WAYS OF KNOWING
STUDIES IN CENTRAL
EUROPEAN HISTORIES
VOLUME 31
Editors
THOMAS A. BRADY, ]R.
ROGER CHICKERING
WAYS OF KNOWING
Ten Interdisciplinary Essays
EDITED BY
MARY LINDEMANN
BRILL ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS, INC.
BOSTON • LEIDEN
2004
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Fri.ihe Neuzeit lnterdisziplinar (1999 : Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Ways of knowing : ten interdisciplinary essays I edited by Mary Lindemann.
p. cm. - (Studies in Central European histories)
Papers presented at the 1999 conference Frilhe Neuzeit Interdisziplinar in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-391-04184-3
1. Knowledge, Sociology of-Congresses. 2. Social epistemology-Congress.
I. Lindemann, Mary. II. Title. III. Series.
HM651.F78 1999
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ISSN: 1547-1217
ISBN: 0-391-04184-3
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ix
List of Illustrations xi
Contributors ................................................................................................ xiii
Introduction: Ways of Knowing xvii
Mary Lindemann
Part I: Creating and Organizing Knowledge
Chapter One: Mad Mares and Wilful Women: Ways of Knowing
Nature-and Gender-in Early Modern Hippological Texts .............. 1
Pia F. Cuneo
Chapter Two: From Insect to Icon: Joris Hoefnagel and the 'Screened
Objects' of the Natural World .............................................................. 23
Janice L. Neri
Chapter Three: The Management of Knowledge at the Electoral Court
of Saxony in Dresden ............................................................................ 53
Helen W atanabeD'Kelly
Chapter Four: Facts or Fiction: Reading and Writing in Early Modern
Popular Literature .................................................................................. 67
Elisabeth Waghatl Nivre
Part II: Evaluating and Using Knowledge
Chapter Five: Are the Cranach Luther Altarpieces Philippist? Memory
of Luther and Knowledge of the Past in the Late Reformation 85
Susan R. Boettcher
Chapter Six: Medicine and Pastoral Care for the Dying in
Protestant Germany ................................................................................ 113
Mitchetl Lewis Hammond
vi CONTENTS
Chapter Seven: How to Do Things with God: Blasphemy in Early
Modern Switzerland ................................................................................ 13 7
Francisca Loetz
Chapter Eight: "Our Diligent Watchers and Informers": Official
Surveillance, Private Denunciation, and the Limits of Authority in
Sixteenth-Century Ulm .......................................................................... 153
Jason Coy
Chapter Nine: The Eclipse of Usury: Bankruptcy and Business
Morality in Eighteenth-Century Germany ............................................ 1 71
Robert Beachy
Chapter Ten: Public Church Penance in Saxony 191
Terence Mcintosh
Index ............................................................................................................ 211
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The articles in this volume were all first presented at the 1999 conference of
Fruhe Neuzeit Interdiszipliniir in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. That conference was
made possible by the generous financial support of the Max Kade Foundation,
the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the departments of history
and philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University. In particular, I would like to thank
the dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, John Lehoczky, and
the heads of the departments of history, Joe W Totter, and of philosophy,
Wilfried Sieg, for their financial assistance and institutional support. The mem
bers of the FNI Council developed the theme of the conference and contin
ued to provide good advice throughout my entire three-year term as president.
In particular, the executive secretary, Tom Robisheaux, and the two past pres
idents, Max Reinhart and James van Hom Melton, were generous with their time
and expertise. A very special thank you is due to Sabine Marx, then a gradu
ate student in the department of history and now Sabine Marx, Ph.D. Sabine
was my administrative assistant, and without her help the conference would
have never taken place or I would have lost my mind. All of the editorial work
on this volume was done while I was a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for
Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS, 2002-2003).
I owe a great debt of gratitude to everyone at that institute and especially to
its rector, Wim Blockmans. I cannot imagine a more congenial and beautiful
spot to work. In particular, however, I must single out Angela Jansen of the
fellows' support staff for her invaluable assistance in copy-editing and word-pro
cessing. That this volume was finished in a timely manner was principally due
to her good offices and considerable hard work. In addition, I would like to
thank Petronella Kievit-Tyson and Anne Simpson of the NIAS editorial staff
for their help in English- language editing.