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

Chapter 9 Beyond Simulation: An Enquiry Concerning Demonic Possession

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?