Early Modern Uncertainty: Reason, Conscience, and Belief in Post-Reformation Catholicism

Elizabeth Cary and Intersections of Catholicism and Gender in Early Modern England

Pre-Modern and Early Modern Persian Literature: Written while Travelling?

In literary histories written in both Iran and the West it has generally be assumed that early modern Persian literary works are (technically inferior) copies of Western literary works. This has been and is still a claim. Almost no academically and scientifically sound works has substantiated this claim. While there is no point in denying a European influence on early modern Persian literature,...

Curiosity, forbidden knowledge, and the reformation of natural philosophy in early modern England.

From the patristic period to the beginning of the seventeenth century curiosity was regarded as an intellectual vice. Curious individuals were considered to be proud and "puffed up," and the objects of their investigations were deemed illicit, dispute engendering, unknowable, or useless. Seventeenth-century projects for the advancement of learning had to distance themselves from curiosity and i...

Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World: An Alternative History of the Reformation

Review Number: 1984 Publish date: Thursday, 8 September, 2016 Author: Nicholas Terpstra ISBN: 9781107652415 Date of Publication: 2015 Price: £69.99 Pages: 352pp. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publisher url: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/history/european-history-after-1450/religious-refugeesearly-modern-world-alternative-history-reformation?format=PB Place of Publication:...

[The physician's conscience, conscience clauses, and religious belief: A Catholic perspective].

This Essay explores how physicians may handle conflicts or conscience facing Roman Catholic Health practitioners regarding "human life" issues, especially through conscience clauses. In five parts, the author examines "first, why conscientious objection is so important in our day; second, the moral grounding for freedom in the exercise of conscience; third, the components of the physician's con...