Dissimulation and Deceit in Early Modern Europe

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Superstition and Dissimulation: Discerning False Religion in the Fifteenth Century

Chapter 3 ‘Mendacium officiosum’: Alberico Gentili’s Ways of Lying

Chapter 4 Dissimulation and Conversion: Francesco Pucci’s Return to Catholicism

Chapter 5 The Identity Game: Ambiguous Religious Attachments in Seventeenth-Century Lyon

Chapter 6 From ‘Marranos’ to ‘Unbelievers’: The Spanish Peccadillo in Sixteenth-Century Italy

Chapter 7 Recidivist Converts in Early Modern Europe

Chapter 8 A Hybrid Identity: Jewish Convert, Christian Mystic and Demoniac

Chapter 10 Genuine and Fraudulent Stigmatics in the Sixteenth Century

Chapter 11 Real, Fake or Megalomaniacs? Three Suspicious Ambassadors, 1450–1600

Chapter 12 Between Madrid and Ophir: Erédia, a Deceitful Discoverer?