Barbara J. Shapiro is Professor of Rhetoric Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include Beyond Reasonable Doubt and Probable Cause: Historical Perspectives on the Anglo-American Law of Evidence and Probability and Certainty in Seventeenth-Century England.
Shapiro has written an excellent work in intellectual and cultural
history.
*Virginia Quarterly Review*
The book is filled with quotes and references to a very wide range
of primary as well as secondary sources. It will be of much
heuristic value in studying the changing meanings of 'fact' in this
period, quite apart from Shapiro's strong argument concerning the
special role of the law.
*Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences*
This nutshell presentation does far from justice to the nuances of
the basic argument of the book, still less to the striking nature
of the supporting detail... It should be given a hearty welcome as
a trenchant and well illustrated contribution to an ongoing
debate.
*Journal of European Studies*
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