Power, knowledge, and expertise in Elizabethan England
By: Eric H. Ash.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: Power (Social sciences) -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century; Knowledge, Sociology of -- History -- 16th century; Expertise -- Political aspects -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1558-1603; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 16th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Expert mediators and Elizabethan England; title: German miners, English mistrust, and the importance of being "expert"; title: Expert mediation and the rebuilding of Dover Harbor; title: Early mathematical navigation in England; title: Secants, sailors, and Elizabethan manuals of navigation; title: Francis Bacon and the expertise of natural philosophy; title: Conclusion: Power, authority, and the expert mediator.