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ZWIERLEIN Cornel (ed.)The Dark Side of Knowledge : histories of ignorance, 1400 to 1800Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016.ISBN 9789004325128Résumé éditeur : How can one study the absence of knowledge, the voids, the conscious and unconscious unknowns through history? Investigations into late medieval and early modern practices of measuring, of risk calculation, of ignorance within financial administrations, of conceiving the docta ignorantia as well as the silence of the illiterate are combined with contributions regarding knowledge gaps within identification procedures and political decision-making, with the emergence of consciously delimited blanks on geographical maps, with ignorance as a factor embedded in iconographic programs, in translation processes and the semantic potentials of reading. Based on thorough archival analysis, these selected contributions from conferences at Harvard and Paris are tightly framed by new theoretical elaborations that have implications beyond these cases and epochal focus.Table des matières :Introduction: Towards a History of Ignorance, Cornel ZwierleinPART 1: LAW1 Law and the Uncertainty of Value in Late Medieval Marseille and Lucca, Daniel L. Smail2 Nescience and the Conscience of Judges. An example of Religion’s influence on Legal procedure, Mathias Schmoeckel3 Speaking Nothing to Power in early modern Germany: Making Sense of Peasant Silence in the Ius Commune, Govind P. SreenivasanPART 2: ECONOMY4 Coping with unkown Risks in Renaissance Florence: Insurance, Friars and Abacus Teachers, Giovanni Ceccarelli5 (Non-)Knowledge, Political Economy and Trade Policy in Seventeenth-Century France: The Problem of Trade Balances, Moritz Isenmann6 Ignorance in Europe’s State Financial Culture (Eighteenth Century), Marie-Laure LegayPART 3: SEMANTICS7 Voluptas carnis. Allegory and Non-Knowledge in Pieter Aertsen’s Still-Life Paintings, John T. Hamilton8 Humanist Styles of Reading in the Prologues and Epilogues of William Caxton, Taylor Cowdery9 Coexistence and Ignorance: What Europeans in the Levant did not read (ca. 1620 to 1750), Cornel ZwierleinPART 4: POLITICAL AND SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION10 Ignorance about the Traveler: Documenting Safe Conduct in the European Middle Ages, Adam J. Kosto11 International Crises as Experience of Non-Knowledge: European Powers and the ‘Affairs of Provence’ (1589-1598), Fabrice Micallef12 Dealing with Hurricanes and Mississippi Floods in Early French New Orleans. Environmental (Non-) Knowledge in a Colonial Context, Eleonora Rohland13 ‘Unknown Sciences’ and Unknown Superiors. The Problem of Non-Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Secret Societies, Andrew McKenzie-McHarg14 Specifying Ignorance in Eighteenth-Century Cartography, a powerful way to promote the Geographer’s Work: The example of Jean-Baptiste d’Anville, Lucile HaguetPART 5: THEORY15 Semantics of the Void Empty Spaces in Eighteenth-Century German Historiography – A First Sketch of a Semiotic Theory, Lucian Hölscher16 Non-Knowledge and Decision Making: The Challenge for the Historian, William O’ReillyAxe de recherches :  Axe 4 : Innovations