Common Knowledge
Bodies, Evidence, and Expertise in Early Modern Germany
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3363748 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Andrew Mendelsohn (Queen Mary University of London), Annemarie Kinzelbach (Film Independent) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 108 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 259-279 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Isis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-1753 • E-ISSN: 1545-6994 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/692680 |
| OpenAlex | W2617430018 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 13 |
Over the past twenty-five years, history of science has expanded into history of knowledge. Plurality has been the main message. Commonality, by contrast, is the main finding of the present study. It examines the knowledge practices of the full range of participants in cases of public inquiry—trials, tests, inspections—involving human bodies in contexts of criminal law, police, public health, marriage and family, claims to community aid, and regulation of trades. The cases come from the archives of three agencies of inquiry and evaluation—a government, a university faculty, and a guild—in a variety of polities in the Holy Roman Empire between about 1500 and 1650. Participants of widely differing education, occupation, and experience—learned, artisanal, and domestic, as well as specialized versions of these—are found to have shared practices of observation, description, explanation, and argument. This finding opens the prospect of a history of shared empirical rationality, in contrast to the hegemony of difference, dialogue or transfer, and "expertise," in how we understand knowing in modern as well as premodern Europe
Argument (complex analysis · Criminal investigation · Criminology · Empirical evidence · Epistemology · Government (linguistics · Hegemony · History of science · Oral history · Political science · Public relations · Rationality · Social science · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Anthropology · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Influence and Diplomacy · Historical Philosophy and Science · Law · Medicine
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| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2019 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |