Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England

by Katherine Eggert

Book Overview

"Disknowledge" knowing something isn't true, but believing it anyway. In Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England, Katherine Eggert explores the crumbling state of learning in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Even as the shortcomings of Renaissance humanism became plain to see, many intellectuals of the age had little choice but to treat their familiar knowledge systems as though they still...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081222485X
• ISBN13: 9780812224856
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"