Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe.
Material type: TextPublication details: CA : University of California Press, [(c)2009.]Description: 1 online resource (307 pages)Content type:- text
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- 9780520944442
- 0520944445
- 1282361031
- 9781282361034
- Italy -- Social life and customs -- 16th century
- Italy -- Social life and customs -- 17th century
- Italy -- Social life and customs -- Sources
- Secrecy -- Social aspects -- Italy -- History
- Truthfulness and falsehood -- Social aspects -- Italy -- History
- Interpersonal communication -- Italy -- History
- Europe -- Social life and customs
- Secrecy -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History
- Truthfulness and falsehood -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History
- Interpersonal communication -- Europe -- History
- DG445 .64 2009
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Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Online Book | G. Allen Fleece Library Online | Non-fiction | DG445 .64 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Link to resource | Available | ocn773565056 |
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Not Empty Silence; 2. Taking One's Distance; 3. Confidence Games; 4. The Government of Designs; 5. The Writing on the Walls; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
"Larvatus prodeo," announced René Descartes at the beginning of the seventeenth century: "I come forward, masked." Deliberately disguising or silencing their most intimate thoughts and emotions, many early modern Europeans besides Descartes-princes, courtiers, aristocrats and commoners alike-chose to practice the shadowy art of dissimulation. For men and women who could not risk revealing their inner lives to those around them, this art of incommunicativity was crucial, both personally and politically. Many writers and intellectuals sought to explain, expose, justify, or condemn the emergence.
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