Notes on the Editor and the ContributorsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Towards a History of IgnoranceCornel 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 procedureMathias Schmoeckel3 Speaking Nothing to Power in early modern Germany: Making Sense of Peasant Silence in the Ius CommuneGovind P. SreenivasanPART 2: ECONOMY4 Coping with unkown Risks in Renaissance Florence: Insurance, Friars and Abacus TeachersGiovanni Ceccarelli5 (Non-)Knowledge, Political Economy and Trade Policy in Seventeenth-Century France: The Problem of Trade BalancesMoritz 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 PaintingsJohn T. Hamilton8 Humanist Styles of Reading in the Prologues and Epilogues of William CaxtonTaylor 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 AgesAdam 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 ContextEleonora Rohland13 'Unknown Sciences' and Unknown Superiors. The Problem of Non-Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Secret SocietiesAndrew McKenzie-McHarg14 Specifying Ignorance in Eighteenth-Century Cartography, a powerful way to promote the Geographer's Work: The example of Jean-Baptiste d'AnvilleLucile HaguetPART 5: THEORY15 Semantics of the Void Empty Spaces in Eighteenth-Century German Historiography - A First Sketch of a Semiotic TheoryLucian Hölscher16 Non-Knowledge and Decision Making: The Challenge for the HistorianWilliam O'ReillyIndex nominumIndex rerum.