TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ginzburg,Carlo
AU  - Biasiori,Lucio
TI  - A Historical Approach to Casuistry: Norms and Exceptions in a Comparative Perspective
SN  - 9781350006775
AV  - BJ1441 .H578 2019 
U1  - 171.609 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
KW  - Casuistry-History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: Casuistry and Medicine across Time and Space -- 1. A Framework for Casuistry: The Royal College of Paediatrics Guidance for Decision Making at the End of Life (2004-2015) -- 2. The Medical Case Narrative in Pre-Modern Europe and China: Comparative History of an Epistemic Genre -- Part Two: Religious Anomalies in the Ancient and Medieval World -- 3. Ritual and Its Transgressions in Ancient Greece -- 4. The Case about Jesus: (Counter-)History and Casuistry in Toledot Yeshu -- Part Three: Legal Casuistry between Judaism and Islam -- 5. "I Signed but I Did not Say": The Status of Chess in Early Modern Judaism -- 6. The Many Roads to Justice: A Case of Adultery in Sixteenth-Century Cairo -- 7. Islamic Casuistry and Galenic Medicine: Hashish, Coffee, and the Emergence of the Jurist-Physician -- Part Four: Casuistry between Reformation and Counter-Reformation -- 8. The Exception as Norm: Casuistry of Suicide in John Donne's Biathanatos -- 9. "Whether 'tis Lawful for a Man to Beat His Wife": Casuistical Exercises in Late Stuart and Early Hanoverian England -- Part Five: Norms and Exceptions in the Early Modern Global World (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries) -- 10. Indians' Forced Labor as a Case for Exception in Seventeenth-Century Colonial America -- 11. Morality and Empire: Cases, Norms, and Exceptions in Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Asia -- 12. An "Our Father" for the Hottentots: Religion, Language, and the Consensus Gentium -- Part Six: Inside and outside Port-Royal -- 13. Port-Royal at Grips with Its Own Casuistry and Pascal's Stand -- 14. Casuistry and Irony: Some Reflections on Pascal's Provinciales -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Index
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