On the edge of truth and honesty
Subtitle: principles and strategies of fraud and deceit in the early modern period
By: edited by Toon van Houdt ... [et al.].
Contributors: Houdt, T. van 1966-
Series: Intersections : yearbook for early modern studies,; v. 2; Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ;; v. 2.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Fraud -- History.; Deception -- History.; Deception in literature.; Truth.; Honesty.; History, Modern -- 16th century.; History, Modern -- 17th century.; History, Modern -- 18th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-288) and index.
Table of contents: title: Word histories, and beyond : towards a conceptualization of fraud and deceit in early modern times -- Toon van Houdt; title: Erasmus on lying and simulation -- Johannes Trapman; title: Cymbalum politicorum, consultor dolosus : two Dutch academics on Niccolò Machiavelli -- Paul van Heck; title: The hidden self of the hypocrite -- Jacques Bos; title: Dissimulation et secret chez Vauvenargues -- Daniel Acke; title: Spinoza and the idea of religious imposture -- Wiep van Bunge; title: Perceptions of deceit and innovation in the Antwerp textile industry, sixteenth and seventeenth century -- Alfons K.L. Thijs; title: The seventeenth-century Antwerp elite and status honor : the presentation of self and the manipulation of social perception -- Bert Timmermans; title: Testing or tempting? : the limits of permissible deceit in early modern English drama -- Paul J.C.M. Franssen; title: Tromper les plus clair-voyans : the counterfeit of precious stones in the work of Rémy Belleau -- Evelien Chayes; title: 'Taste the fare and chew it with your eyes' : a painting by Pieter Pietersz and the amusing deceit in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish kitchen scenes -- Zoran Kwak; title: A singing siren, enchanting men to sleep : musical deceit in Dutch Renaissance drama -- Natascha Veldhorst; title: Who do beggars deceive? : Adriaen van de Venne, recreational literature and the pleasure of forging texts -- Marc van Vaeck & Johan Verberckmoes.