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Part I Reconstructing authority: remapping knowledge, reshaping institutions, Luce Giard; the history of science and the Renaissance science of history, Stephen Pumfrey; rhetoric and science/rhetoric of science/rhetoric as science, Maurice Slawinski; natural philosophy and its public concerns, Julian Martin; the church and the new philosophy, Peter Dear. Part II True learning, useful arts, foolish superstitions: science, culture and the dissemination of learning, Paolo L. Rossi; the challenge of practical mathematics, Jim Bennett; doctors and healers - popular culture and the medical profession, John Henry; the rational witchfinder - conscience, demonological naturalism and popular superstitions, Stuart Clark; astrology, religion, and politics in counter-Reformation Rome, Germana Ernst; astrology in early modern England - the making of a vulgar knowledge, Patrick Curry.