The Dark Side of Knowledge: Histories of Ignorance, 1400 to 1800

Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Editor
Notes on the Contributors
List of Illustrations and Tables
Introduction: Towards a History of Ignorance
Part 1 Law
	Chapter 1 Law and the Uncertainty of Value in Late Medieval Marseille and Lucca
	Chapter 2 Nescience and the Conscience of Judges. An Example of Religion’s Influence on Legal Procedure
	Chapter 3 Speaking Nothing to Power in Early Modern Germany: Making Sense of Peasant Silence in the Ius Commune
Part 2 Economy
	Chapter 4 Coping with Unknown Risks in Renaissance Florence: Insurers, Friars and Abacus Teachers
	Chapter 5 (Non-)Knowledge, Political Economy and Trade Policy in Seventeenth-Century France: The Problem 
of Trade Balances
	Chapter 6 Ignorance in Europe’s State Financial Culture (Eighteenth Century)
Part 3 Semantics
	Chapter 7 Voluptas Carnis. Allegory and Non-Knowledge in Pieter Aertsen’s Still-Life Paintings
	Chapter 8 Humanist Styles of Reading in the Prologues and Epilogues of William Caxton
	Chapter 9 Coexistence and Ignorance: What Europeans in the Levant did not read (ca. 1620–1750)
Part 4 Political and Scientific Communication
	Chapter 10 Ignorance about the Traveler: Documenting Safe Conduct in the European Middle Ages
	Chapter 11 International Crises as Experience of Non-Knowledge: European Powers and the ‘Affairs of Provence’ (1589–1598)
	Chapter 12 Dealing with Hurricanes and Mississippi Floods in Early French New Orleans. Environmental (Non-) Knowledge in a Colonial Context
	Chapter 13 ‘Unknown Sciences’ and Unknown Superiors. The Problem of Non-Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Secret Societies
	Chapter 14 Specifying Ignorance in Eighteenth-Century Cartography, a Powerful Way to Promote the Geographer’s Work: The Example of Jean-Baptiste d’Anville
Part 5 Theory
	Chapter 15 Semantics of the Void: Empty Spaces inEighteenth-Century German Historiography. A First Sketch of a Semiotic Theory
	Chapter 16 Non-Knowledge and Decision Making: The Challenge for the Historian
Index Nominum
Index Rerum