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Dissimulation and Deceit in Early Modern Europe

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Editors:
  1. Miriam Eliav-Feldon

    1. Tel Aviv University, Israel

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  2. Tamar Herzig

    1. Tel Aviv University, Israel

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Miriam Eliav-Feldon
    Pages 1-8

  3. Superstition and Dissimulation: Discerning False Religion in the Fifteenth Century

    • Michael D. Bailey
    Pages 9-26

  4. ‘Mendacium officiosum’: Alberico Gentili’s Ways of Lying

    • Vincenzo Lavenia
    Pages 27-44

  5. Dissimulation and Conversion: Francesco Pucci’s Return to Catholicism

    • Giorgio Caravale
    Pages 45-66

  6. The Identity Game: Ambiguous Religious Attachments in Seventeenth-Century Lyon

    • Monica Martinat
    Pages 67-78

  7. From ‘Marranos’ to ‘Unbelievers’: The Spanish Peccadillo in Sixteenth-Century Italy

    • Stefania Pastore
    Pages 79-93

  8. Recidivist Converts in Early Modern Europe

    • Moshe Sluhovsky
    Pages 94-109

  9. A Hybrid Identity: Jewish Convert, Christian Mystic and Demoniac

    • Adelisa Malena
    Pages 110-129

  10. Beyond Simulation: An Enquiry Concerning Demonic Possession

    • Guido Dall’Olio
    Pages 130-141

  11. Genuine and Fraudulent Stigmatics in the Sixteenth Century

    • Tamar Herzig
    Pages 142-164

  12. Real, Fake or Megalomaniacs? Three Suspicious Ambassadors, 1450–1600

    • Giorgio Rota
    Pages 165-183

  13. Between Madrid and Ophir: Erédia, a Deceitful Discoverer?

    • Jorge Flores
    Pages 184-210

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 211-250
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About this book

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.

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“The volume under review groups eleven studies, most of which were originally presented as contributions to an international conference held at Tel Aviv University in 2012. … its reader has gained a view of a surprisingly wide panorama of deceit cases, and thus been given a broad insight into the history of early modern dissimulation as such.” (Benedek Láng, Magic Ritual and Witchcraft, Vol. 12 (1), 2017)

“This volume is a true milestone in tracing, mapping, and conceptualizing the culture of lying and dissimulation in the premodern era. … This seminal book will be of enormous value and interest not only to early modernists but also to intellectual and religious historians in general.” (Maria Ivanova, The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 102 (4), 2016)


Editors and Affiliations

  • Tel Aviv University, Israel

    Miriam Eliav-Feldon, Tamar Herzig

About the editors

Professor (Emerita) Miriam Eliav-Feldon taught early modern history at Tel Aviv University, Israel, for several decades and served as Chairperson of its history department in the years 1996-2000. Her publications include several books and many articles in Hebrew, English and French, on Renaissance utopias, pacifism and peace plans, origins of racism and invented identities.

Tamar Herzig is Associate Professor of early modern history at Tel Aviv University, Israel, where she also serves as Director of the Morris E. Curiel Institute for European Studies. Her publications include Savonarola's Women: Visions and Reform in Renaissance Italy (2008; published in Italian 2014) and 'Christ Transformed into a Virgin Woman': Lucia Brocadelli, Heinrich Institoris, and the Defense of the Faith (2013), as well as numerous articles.

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