Format:
xii, 250 Seiten
ISBN:
9781137447487
Content:
"A Luso-Malay cosmographer who claimed to have discovered Ophir, a Franciscan friar who headed a delegation of shabby fraudulent emissaries from the Orient, a Dominican tertiary's confirmed stigmata eventually revealed as fraud but later venerated again as saintly, a Jewish convert who was suspected of both demonic possession and of feigned sanctity, poor folk who survived by converting time and again in order to enjoy the benefits accorded to neophytes, religious chameleons who adapted themselves to the surroundings in which they found themselves, and a number of possessed girls--these are some of the figures re-enacting their charade in the pages of this volume. Twelve distinguished scholars analyse categories and individual cases of imposture in the age of geographical discoveries, of debates over the category of sanctity, and of forced conversions, thus offering a more nuanced understanding of the meaning of identity and pretence, truth and falsehood, in early modern Europe"--
Content:
1. Introduction / Miriam Eliav-Feldon -- 2. Superstition and Dissimulation : Discerning False Religion in the Fifteenth Century / Michael D. Bailey -- 3. "Mendacium officiosum" : Alberico Gentili's Ways of Lying / Vincenzo Lavenia -- 4. Dissimulation and Conversion : Francesco Pucci's Return to Catholicism / Giorgio Caravale -- 5. The Identity Game : Ambiguous Religious Attachments in Seventeenth-Century Lyon / Monica Martinat -- 6. From "Marranos" to "Unbelievers" : The Spanish Peccadillo in Sixteenth Century Italy / Stefania Pastore -- 7. Recidivist Converts in Early Modern Europe / Moshe Sluhovsky -- 8. A Hybrid Identity : Jewish Convert, Christian Mystic and Demoniac / Adelisa Malena -- 9. Beyond Simulation : An Enquiry Concerning Demonic Possession / Guido Dall'Olio -- 10. Genuine and Fraudulent Stigmatics in the Sixteenth Century / Tamar Herzig -- 11. Real, Fake or Megalomaniacs? : Three Suspicious Ambassadors, 1450-1600 / Giorgio Rota -- 12. Between Madrid and Ophir : Erédia, a Deceitful Discoverer / Jorge Flores
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
1. Introduction / Miriam Eliav-Feldon2. Superstition and Dissimulation : Discerning False Religion in the Fifteenth Century / Michael D. Bailey -- 3. "Mendacium officiosum" : Alberico Gentili's Ways of Lying / Vincenzo Lavenia -- 4. Dissimulation and Conversion : Francesco Pucci's Return to Catholicism / Giorgio Caravale -- 5. The Identity Game : Ambiguous Religious Attachments in Seventeenth-Century Lyon / Monica Martinat -- 6. From "Marranos" to "Unbelievers" : The Spanish Peccadillo in Sixteenth Century Italy / Stefania Pastore -- 7. Recidivist Converts in Early Modern Europe / Moshe Sluhovsky -- 8. A Hybrid Identity : Jewish Convert, Christian Mystic and Demoniac / Adelisa Malena -- 9. Beyond Simulation : An Enquiry Concerning Demonic Possession / Guido Dall'Olio -- 10. Genuine and Fraudulent Stigmatics in the Sixteenth Century / Tamar Herzig -- 11. Real, Fake or Megalomaniacs? : Three Suspicious Ambassadors, 1450-1600 / Giorgio Rota -- 12. Between Madrid and Ophir : Erédia, a Deceitful Discoverer / Jorge Flores.
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Europa
;
Religion
;
Täuschung
;
Betrug
;
Heuchelei
;
Geschichte 1400-1700
;
Aufsatzsammlung
URL:
http://palgrave.com/de/book/9781137447487
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