Dissimulation and Deceit in Early Modern Europe

  • Palgrave Macmillan
  • 2015
  • Elektronisk medie
  • English
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  • 9781137447494

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.