Ignorance in Europe’s State Financial ...
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Partie d'ouvrage: Chapitre
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Title :
Ignorance in Europe’s State Financial Culture (Eighteenth Century)
Author(s) :
Legay, Marie-Laure [Auteur]
Institut de Recherches Historiques du Septentrion (IRHiS) - UMR 8529
Institut de Recherches Historiques du Septentrion (IRHiS) - UMR 8529 [IRHiS]

Institut de Recherches Historiques du Septentrion (IRHiS) - UMR 8529
Institut de Recherches Historiques du Septentrion (IRHiS) - UMR 8529 [IRHiS]
Scientific editor(s) :
Zwierlein, Cornel
Book title :
The Dark Side of Knowledge : Histories of ignorance 1400-1800
Publisher :
Brill
Publication place :
Leiden
Boston
Boston
Publication date :
2016
HAL domain(s) :
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Histoire
English abstract : [en]
How can one study the absence of knowledge, the voids, the conscious and unconscious unknowns through history? Investigations into late medieval and early modern practices of measuring, of risk calculation, of ignorance ...
Show more >How can one study the absence of knowledge, the voids, the conscious and unconscious unknowns through history? Investigations into late medieval and early modern practices of measuring, of risk calculation, of ignorance within financial administrations, of conceiving the docta ignorantia as well as the silence of the illiterate are combined with contributions regarding knowledge gaps within identification procedures and political decision-making, with the emergence of consciously delimited blanks on geographical maps, with ignorance as a factor embedded in iconographic programs, in translation processes and the semantic potentials of reading. Based on thorough archival analysis, these selected contributions from conferences at Harvard and Paris are tightly framed by new theoretical elaborations that have implications beyond these cases and epochal focus.Show less >
Show more >How can one study the absence of knowledge, the voids, the conscious and unconscious unknowns through history? Investigations into late medieval and early modern practices of measuring, of risk calculation, of ignorance within financial administrations, of conceiving the docta ignorantia as well as the silence of the illiterate are combined with contributions regarding knowledge gaps within identification procedures and political decision-making, with the emergence of consciously delimited blanks on geographical maps, with ignorance as a factor embedded in iconographic programs, in translation processes and the semantic potentials of reading. Based on thorough archival analysis, these selected contributions from conferences at Harvard and Paris are tightly framed by new theoretical elaborations that have implications beyond these cases and epochal focus.Show less >
Language :
Anglais
Audience :
Internationale
Popular science :
Non
Administrative institution(s) :
Université de Lille
CNRS
CNRS
Submission date :
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