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Livres anciens et modernes

Mark Crane, Richard Raiswell, Margaret Reeves

Shell Games: Studies in Scams, Frauds, and Deceits (1300-1650)

Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies 2004,

70,00 €

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Auteur
Mark Crane, Richard Raiswell, Margaret Reeves
Éditeurs
Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies 2004
Description
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Non
Etat de conservation
Tres bonne condition
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Couverture souple
Dédicacée
Non
Premiére Edition
Non

Description

8vo, br. ed. softcover, no marks in text, previous owner's name stamped on half-title page, tight uncreased spine, clean exterior. As Michel de Montaigne pointed out, truth's opposite has a hundred thousand shapes and a limitless field. This volume presents thirteen case studies from Italy, Spain, England, France, and the Empire, concerning parochial and patriarchal networks of power. They address people on the margins of society, trying to manipulate boundaries, and people at the centre of power, endeavouring to conserve or enhance their position. But at their heart, all these essays raise crucial questions about the nature of truth as well as its construction and detection for pre-modern men and women. The perpetrators of these scams, their victims, and the authorities charged with policing them, grapple with the roles of authority, power, status, gender, tradition, orality, and technology as they craft their schemes or plot their courses of action. In short, they highlight sites of social, political, and epistemological tension as Europe slowly moves from the medieval to the modern.
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