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1 online resource (307 pages) |
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Contents |
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. |
Summary |
"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. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-271) and index. |
Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Italy -- Social life and customs -- Sources.
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Italy. |
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Manners and customs. |
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Sources.
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Secrecy -- Social aspects -- Italy -- History.
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Secrecy. |
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Social aspects. |
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History. |
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Truthfulness and falsehood -- Social aspects -- Italy -- History.
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Truthfulness and falsehood -- Social aspects. |
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Truthfulness and falsehood. |
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Interpersonal communication -- Italy -- History.
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Interpersonal communication. |
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Europe -- Social life and customs.
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Europe. |
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Secrecy -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History.
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Truthfulness and falsehood -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History.
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Interpersonal communication -- Europe -- History.
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Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1500-1700 |
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Electronic books.
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Secrecy. |
Other Form: |
Print version: Snyder, Jon R. Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe. CA : University of California Press, ©2009 9780520228191 |
ISBN |
9780520944442 (electronic book) |
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0520944445 (electronic book) |
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1282361031 |
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9781282361034 |
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9780520228191 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520228197 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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