Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. A Product’s Glamour. Credibility, or the Manufacture and Administration of Truth in Early Modern Catholicism 7
4. Part I. Accommodating
5. 1. Scholastic Approaches to Reasonable Disagreement 41
6. 2. Regulating the Credibility of Non- Christians : Oaths on False Gods and Seventeenth-Century Casuistry 63
7. 3. How to Be a Catholic Copernican in the Spanish Netherlands 85
8. 4. Appearance and Essence : Speaking the Truth about the Body in the Early Modern Catholic Church 111
9. Part II. Performing
10. 5. Saving Truth: Roman Censorship and Catholic Pluralization in the Confessionals of the Habsburg Netherlands, 1682–1686 135
11. 6. The Production of Truth in the Manufacture of Saints . Procedures, Credibility and Patronage in Early Modern Processes of Canonization 165
12. 7. Credibility of the Past : Writing and Censoring History within Seventeenth-Century Catholicism 191
13. 8. Heresy and Error in the Assessment of Modern Philosophical Psychology 211
14. 9. Modern Philosophy and Ancient Heresies: New Wine in Old Bottles? 237
15. Part III. Embedding
16. 10. “Experiences Are Not Successful Accompaniments to Knowledge of the Truth”: The Trial of the Atheists in Late Seventeenth-Century Naples 263
17. 11. Choosing Information, Selecting Truth : The Roman Congregations, the Benedictine Declaration, and the Establishment of Religious Plurality 279
18. 12. Disciplining the Sciences in Conflict Zones : Pre-Classical Mechanics between the Sovereign State and the Reformed Catholic Religion 305
19. Index 331