Even if the sound of “cultural actors continually negotiate meanings produced by the contestation of new narratives vying for interpretive authority� doesn’t appeal, it might be worth persisting with The Word of God and the Languages of Man by James Bono (University of Wisconsin Press, £19.95, ISBN 0 299 14794 0) if you have a serious interest in how the Scientific Revolution produced its changes. A demanding, scholarly book, Bono makes the case that our interpretation is flawed because we fail to perceive how narrative changed during the 16th and 17th centuries.
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