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<p>"Disknowledge": knowing something isn't true, but believing it anyway. In <i>Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England</i>, Katherine Eggert explores the crumbling state of learning in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Even as the shortcomings of Renaissance humanism became plain to see, many intellectuals of the age had little choice but to treat their familiar knowledge systems as though they still held. Humanism thus came to share the status o

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Author

Katherine Eggert

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812291889

Category

literary studies

Subjects

History, Literary Criticism, Science

Updated

2026-03-24