On the edge of truth and honesty: principles and strategies of fraud and deceit in the early modern period

Contents

Word histories, and beyond : towards a conceptualization of fraud and deceit in early modern times / Toon van Houdt -- Erasmus on lying and simulation / Johannes Trapman -- Cymbalum politicorum, consultor dolosus : two Dutch academics on Niccolò Machiavelli / Paul van Heck -- The hidden self of the hypocrite / Jacques Bos -- Dissimulation et secret chez Vauvenargues / Daniel Acke -- Spinoza and the idea of religious imposture / Wiep van Bunge -- Perceptions of deceit and innovation in the Antwerp textile industry, sixteenth and seventeenth century / Alfons K.L. Thijs -- The seventeenth-century Antwerp elite and status honor : the presentation of self and the manipulation of social perception / Bert Timmermans -- Testing or tempting? : the limits of permissible deceit in early modern English drama / Paul J.C.M. Franssen -- Tromper les plus clair-voyans : the counterfeit of precious stones in the work of Rémy Belleau / Evelien Chayes -- '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 -- A singing siren, enchanting men to sleep : musical deceit in Dutch Renaissance drama / Natascha Veldhorst -- Who do beggars deceive? : Adriaen van de Venne, recreational literature and the pleasure of forging texts / Marc van Vaeck & Johan Verberckmoes.