Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Note on Contributors
Introduction, Tamar Herzig


PART I: RELIGION AND KNOWLEDGE IN THE AGE OF THE REFORMATION

“Eruditio Ancilla Reformationis”: Theodore Beza and the Uses of History in the Icones, Myriam Yardeni

General Confession and Self-Knowledge in Early Modern Catholicism, Moshe Sluhovsky


PART II: MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE

Imagination, Passions, and the Production of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: From Lipsius to Descartes, Raz Chen-Morris

Love for All: The Medical Discussion of Lovesickness in Jacob Zahalon’s The Treasure of Life (Otzar ha-Ḥayyim), Michal Altbauer-Rudnik


PART III: KNOWLEDGE OF NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS

Religious Rituals and Ethnographic Knowledge: Sixteenth-Century Descriptions of Circumcision, Yaacov Deutsch

Islam, Eastern Christianity, and Superstition according to Some Early Modern English Observers, Zur Shalev

Pagan Gods in Late Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century German Universities: A Sketch, Asaph Ben-Tov


PART IV:ENLIGHTENMENT AND COUNTER-ENLIGHTENMENT

Between Representation and Impersonation: Rousseau on Theatre and Politics, David Heyd

The Invention of the Counter-Enlightenment: The Case for the Defense, Joseph Mali


Afterword: The Changing Contours of Early Modern Intellectual History, Theodore K. Rabb

Michael Heyd: A Select Bibliography

About the Author

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).

Reviews

"[...] 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