{"product_id":"defining-natures-limits-neil-tarrant-9780226819426","title":"Defining Nature's Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science","description":"\u003cb\u003eA look at the history of censorship, science, and magic from the Middle Ages to the post-Reformation era.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Neil Tarrant challenges conventional thinking by looking at the longer history of censorship, considering a five-hundred-year continuity of goals and methods stretching from the late eleventh century to well into the sixteenth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Unlike earlier studies, \u003ci\u003eDefining Nature's Limits \u003c\/i\u003eengages the history of both learned and popular magic. Tarrant explains how the church developed a program that sought to codify what was proper belief through confession, inquisition, and punishment and prosecuted what they considered superstition or heresy that stretched beyond the boundaries of religion. These efforts were continued by the Roman Inquisition, established in 1542. Although it was designed primarily to combat Protestantism, from the outset the new institution investigated both practitioners of \"illicit\" magic and inquiries into natural philosophy, delegitimizing certain practices and thus shaping the development of early modern science. Describing the dynamics of censorship that continued well into the post-Reformation era, \u003ci\u003eDefining Nature's Limits\u003c\/i\u003e is revisionist history that will interest scholars of the history science, the history of magic, and the history of the church alike. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Neil Tarrant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226819426\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226819426\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/18\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.06h x 5.98w x 1.02d","brand":"Neil Tarrant","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44056659230975,"sku":"9780226819426","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c18e1696-c40e-421f-88bf-471577d04f58.jpg?v=1685042552","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/defining-natures-limits-neil-tarrant-9780226819426","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}