:<i>Satisfying Skepticism: Embodied Knowledge in the Early Modern World</i>

Abstract

Skepticism and improvization - the brain and its habits is touching believing? - what did Doubting Thomas want to know? finding the right touch - Shakespeare's Coriolanus as type and token the tragic power of imaging in Shakespeare's Othello learning by anology - sex, violence and skepticism in the erotic pastoral beauty is truth - the comic pastoral pesponse to skeptcism in paintings of Susanna and the Elders Protestant iconoclasm and the sensible response of the ordinary Dutch landscape Sidney's brief - to defend the gold(en) standard against Protestant iconophobia God save the King - skepticism and the satisfaction of protestant tragicomedy offended by omissios? - occlusion, imagination and historical change.