Document Type:
Collective work
Author/editor:
edited by Miriam Eliav-Feldon and Tamar Herzig
 
Standard: Herzig, Tamar [Tamar Herzig] Eliav-Feldon, Miriam [Miriam Eliav-Feldon]
Title:
Dissimulation and deceit in early modern Europe

Standard:

Date of Publication:
2015
Place of Publication:
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire

Standard: Houndmills

Publisher/Printer name:
Palgrave Macmillan

Standard: Palgrave Macmillan

ISBN/ISSN:
9781137447487
Pages:
XII, 250 p.
Format :
23 cm

Table of contents:

1. Introduction / Miriam Eliav-Feldon 2. Superstition and dissimulation : discerning false religion in the fifteenth century / Michael D. Bailey 3. Mendacium officiosum" : Alberico Gentili's ways of lying / Vincenzo Lavenia 4. Dissimulation and conversion : Francesco Pucci's return to catholicism / Giorgio Caravale 5. The identity game : ambiguous religious attachments in seventeenth-century Lyon / Monica Martinat 6.From "Marranos" to "Unbelievers" : the spanish Peccadillo in sixteenth-century Italy / Stefania Pastore 7. Recidivist converts in early modern europe / Moshe Sluhovsky 8. A hybrid identity : jewish convert, christian mystic and demoniac / Adelisa Malena 9.Beyond simulation : an enquiry concerning demonic possession / Guido Dall'Olio 10. Genuine and fraudulent stigmatics in the sixteenth century / Tamar Herzig 11. Real, fake or megalomaniacs? Three suspicious ambassadors, 1450-1600 / Giorgio Rota 12. Between Madrid and Ophir : Erédia, a deceitful discoverer? / Jorge Flores

Summary/Notes:

In this book, twelve scholars of early modern history analyse various categories and cases of deception and false identity in the age of geographical discoveries and of forced conversions: from two-faced conversos to serial converts, from demoniacs to stigmatics, and from self-appointed ambassadors to lying cosmographer.

Contribution in a collective work :
- 'Mendacium officiosum' : Alberico Gentili's ways of lying
- Dissimulation and conversion : Francesco Pucci's return to catholicism
- From "Marranos" to "Unbelievers" : the spanish Peccadillo in sixteenth-century Italy