Disknowledge : literature, alchemy, and the end of humanism in Renaissance England

Disknowledge : literature, alchemy, and the end of humanism in Renaissance England / Katherine Eggert.

Disknowledge": knowing something isn't true, but believing it anyway. In 'Disknowledge: Literature, alchemy, and the end of humanism in Renaissance England', Katherine Eggert explores the crumbling state of learning in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Even as the shortcom...

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Main Author: Eggert, Katherine (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]
Subjects:
1500-1699
Science, Renaissance.
Religion and science > England > History > 17th century.
Religion and science > England > History > 16th century.
Alchemy in literature.
Alchemy > England > 17th century.
Alchemy > England > 16th century.
Knowledge, Theory of > England > History > 17th century.
Knowledge, Theory of > England > History > 16th century.
Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)
HISTORY > Renaissance.
Alchemy
Alchemy in literature
Knowledge, Theory of
Religion and science
Science, Renaissance
England
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Notes on Texts, Biblical Quotations, and Bibliography; Introduction; Chapter 1. How to Sustain Humanism; Chapter 2. How to Forget Transubstantiation; Chapter 3. How to Skim Kabbalah; Chapter 4. How to Avoid Gynecology; Chapter 5. How to Make Fiction; Afterword; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z; Acknowledgments.

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