In this book, twelve scholars of early modern history analyse various categories and cases of deception and false identity in the age of geographical discoverie

In this book, twelve scholars of early modern history analyse various categories and cases of deception and false identity in the age of geographical discoverie

The religious persecution and intellectual intolerance of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries compelled many heterodox groups and thinkers to resort to misd

"Larvatus prodeo," announced René Descartes at the beginning of the seventeenth century: "I come forward, masked." Deliberately disguising or silencing their m

This study examines the ethical character of John Calvin and his Genevan colleagues' evangelizing of France. It reveals that Calvin's plans for proselytizing hi