Threatened knowledge : practices of knowing and ignoring from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. / edited by Renate Dürr

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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Practices of knowing and ignoring from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century -- PART I: Negotiating uncertainties and the reliability of knowledge -- 2 What (not) to read in times of crisis. Responses to the first index of banned books (c. 500 to c. 1100) -- 3 Precarious knowledge in the Carolingian period: the case of prognostic texts -- 4 "Doubt all before you believe anything": stock market speculation in the early twentieth-century United States -- PART II: Creating and misunderstanding references -- 5 Knowledge and violence in a society under threat: death penalty under Charles the Bald (843-877) -- 6 Global encounters - precarious knowledge: traces of alchemical practice in Indonesian Batavia -- 7 Biculturalism, multiculturalism, and indigeneity as a strategy of memoria. Canada and Australia defining themselves in times of threat -- PART III: Knowing and ignoring as reciprocal answers -- 8 Rhetoric and divination in Erasmus's edition of Jerome: ancient and modern ways to save dangerous, vulnerable texts -- 9 "Ignorance is power, as well as joy": trying to manage information in turn-of-the-century America -- 10 Corresponding practices of knowing: emotions and entertainment as a threat in Berlin and Cairo around 1900 -- Index.