An interdisciplinary study of the forms and uses of uncertainty in important works of literature and philosophy in antiquity and the Renaissance.

This volume examines five early modern novels from the seventeenth century in Spain and France as examples of literature as a form of skeptical inquiry: Cervant

The central thesis of this book is that skepticism was instrumental to the defense of orthodox religion and the development of the identity of the Church of Eng

This book explores how far some leading philosophers, from Montaigne to Hume, used Academic Scepticism to build their own brand of scepticism or took it as its

Lauren Robertson shows how the commercial theater transformed early modernity's crisis of uncertainty into spectacular onstage display.