List of Illustrations

Notes on the Editors of this Volume

List of Contributors

Introduction

Word Histories, and Beyond: Towards a Conceptualization of Fraud and Deceit in Early Modern Times

Toon Van Houdt

I. DISCOURSES

Erasmus on Lying and Simulation

Johannes Trapman

Cymbalum Politicorum, Consultor Dolosus. Two Dutch Academics on Niccolo Machiavelli

Paul Van Heck

The Hidden Self of the Hypocrite

Jacques Bos

Dissimulation et Secret chez Vauvenargues

Daniel Acke

Spinoza and the Idea of Religious Imposture

Wiep Van Bunge

II. PRACTICES

Perceptions of Deceit and Innovation in the Antwerp Textile Industry (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries)

Alfons K.L. Thijs

The Seventeenth-Century Antwerp Elite and Status Honour. The Presentation of Self and the Manipulation of Social Perception

Bert Timmermans

III. REPRESENTATIONS

Testing or Tempting? The Limits of Permissible Deceit in Early Modern English Drama

Paul J.C.M. Franssen

Tromper les Plus Clair-Voyans. The Counterfeit of Precious Stones in the Work of Remy Belleau

Evelien Chayes

`Taste the Fare and Chew it with Your Eyes': A Painting by Pieter Pietersz and the Amusing Deceit in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Kitchen Scenes

Zoran Kwak

A Singing Siren, Enchanting Men to Sleep. Musical Deceit in Dutch Renaissance Drama

Natascha Veldhorst

Who Do Beggars Deceive? Adriaen van de Venne, Recreational Literature and the Pleasure of Forging Texts

Marc Van Vaeck

Johan Verberckmoes

Index Nominum