Knowledge and Religion in Early Modern Europe

Asaph Ben-Tov, Ph.D. (2007) in History, Hebrew University Jerusalem. Currently working on the role of Classics and Oriental Studies at German universities of the Early Enlightenment. He is the author of Lutheran Humanists and Greek Antiquity (Brill, 2009).Yaacov Deutsch, Ph.D (2005) in History, Hebrew University Jerusalem is head of the History Department at David Yellin College and Executive Director of the World Union of Jewish Studies. He is the author of Judaism in Christian Eyes: Ethnographic Descriptions of Jews and Judaism in Early Modern Europe (Oxford University Press, 2012).Tamar Herzig, Ph.D. (2005) in History, Hebrew University Jerusalem, is a senior lecturer in early modern history at Tel Aviv University and the author of Savonarola’s Women: Visions and Reform in Renaissance Italy (The University of Chicago Press, 2008).

• AcknowledgmentsNote on ContributorsIntroduction, Tamar HerzigPART I: RELIGION AND KNOWLEDGE IN THE AGE OF THE REFORMATION“Eruditio Ancilla Reformationis”: Theodore Beza and the Uses of History in the Icones, Myriam YardeniGeneral Confession and Self-Knowledge in Early Modern Catholicism, Moshe SluhovskyPART II: MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGEImagination, Passions, and the Production of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: From Lipsius to Descartes, Raz Chen-MorrisLove for All: The Medical Discussion of Lovesickness in Jacob Zahalon’s The Treasure of Life (Otzar ha-Ḥayyim), Michal Altbauer-RudnikPART III: KNOWLEDGE OF NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONSReligious Rituals and Ethnographic Knowledge: Sixteenth-Century Descriptions of Circumcision, Yaacov DeutschIslam, Eastern Christianity, and Superstition according to Some Early Modern English Observers, Zur ShalevPagan Gods in Late Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century German Universities: A Sketch, Asaph Ben-TovPART IV:ENLIGHTENMENT AND COUNTER-ENLIGHTENMENTBetween Representation and Impersonation: Rousseau on Theatre and Politics, David HeydThe Invention of the Counter-Enlightenment: The Case for the Defense, Joseph MaliAfterword: The Changing Contours of Early Modern Intellectual History, Theodore K. RabbMichael Heyd: A Select Bibliography

"[...] the essays open up useful perspectives and make important contributions to our knowledge of the connections between religion and different kinds of knowledge in early modern Europe. On the whole, this is a valuable book that brings together intriguing scholarship and offers many interesting insights."Lorenzo Casini, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 1 (Spring 2014), pp. 321-322