Acknowledgments
Introduction
Mercedes García-Arenal
I. Staging Inquisitions: Nature, Culture, Religion
1. Trusting the “I”: Picaresque Confession and Early Modern Scepticism
Barbara Fuchs
2. Feeling Certainty, Performing Sincerity: The Emotional Hermeneutics of Truth in Inquisitorial and Theatrical Practice
Paul Michael Johnson
3. Conflicting Certainties or Different Truths: Healers and Inquisition in Baroque Spain
María Luz López Terrada
4. True Peste and False Doors: Medical and Legal Discourse during the Great Castilian Plague, 1596–1601
Ruth MacKay
5. Policing Talent in Early Modern Jesuit Rome: Difference, Self-Knowledge, and Career Specialization
Javier Patiño Loira
II. Negotiating History and Theology
6. Stolen Saint: Relic Theft and Relic Identification in Seventeenth-Century Rome
A. Katie Stirling-Harris
7. Baptizing “Uncertain Human Beings”? Probabilist Theology and the Question of the Beginning of Human Life in Seventeenth-Century Catholicism
Stefania Tutino
8. Truth and Human History in Melchor Cano’s De locis theologicis
Fernando Rodríguez Mediano
9. Ambivalent Origins: Isaac La Peyrère and the Politics of Historical Certainty in Seventeenth-Century Europe
Carlos Cañete
