Defining Nature's Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science by Tarrant, Neil
Defining Nature's Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science by Tarrant, Neil

Defining Nature's Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science

A look at the history of censorship, science, and magic from the Middle Ages to the post-Reformation...
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Defining Nature's Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science by Tarrant, Neil

Defining Nature's Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science

$152.90
Defining Nature's Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science by Tarrant, Neil

Defining Nature's Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science

$152.90
Author: Neil Tarrant
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
A look at the history of censorship, science, and magic from the Middle Ages to the post-Reformation era.

Neil Tarrant challenges conventional thinking by looking at the longer history of censorship, considering a five-hundred-year continuity of goals and methods stretching from the late eleventh century to well into the sixteenth.

Unlike earlier studies, Defining Nature's Limits engages the history of both learned and popular magic. Tarrant explains how the church developed a program that sought to codify what was proper belief through confession, inquisition, and punishment and prosecuted what they considered superstition or heresy that stretched beyond the boundaries of religion. These efforts were continued by the Roman Inquisition, established in 1542. Although it was designed primarily to combat Protestantism, from the outset the new institution investigated both practitioners of "illicit" magic and inquiries into natural philosophy, delegitimizing certain practices and thus shaping the development of early modern science. Describing the dynamics of censorship that continued well into the post-Reformation era, Defining Nature's Limits is revisionist history that will interest scholars of the history science, the history of magic, and the history of the church alike.


Author: Neil Tarrant
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 11/18/2022
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.06h x 5.98w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9780226819426

About the Author
Tarrant, Neil: - Neil Tarrant is a research associate in the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the University of York.
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