On the Edge of Truth and Honesty. Principles and strategies of Fraud and Deceit in the early modern period. Kulturgeschichte - Houdt, Toon van u.a.(Hrsg.)

Kulturgeschichte - Houdt, Toon van u.a.(Hrsg.)

ISBN 10: 9004125728 / ISBN 13: 9789004125728

Editore: Leiden Brill, 2002

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On the Edge of Truth and Honesty. Principles and strategies of Fraud and Deceit in the early modern period. In deutscher Sprache. pages.

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• Titolo: On the Edge of Truth and Honesty. Principles and strategies of Fraud and Deceit in the early modern period. Kulturgeschichte - Houdt, Toon van u.a.(Hrsg.)
• Editore: Leiden Brill
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9004125728
• ISBN 13: 9789004125728
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Edizione: 2002.
• Condizione: gut
• Peso: 2000 grammi

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Riassunto

This book contains twelve penetrating case-studies written by scholars from various disciplines. They focus on the use of deceit by several groups of people in different spheres of life, as well as on its representation in literary and artistic genres, and its conceptualization in philosophical and rhetorical discourses.

Informazioni sull'autore

Toon van Houdt teaches Latin in the Department of Classics at the Catholic University of Leuven. His research focuses mainly on verbal and non-verbal strategies of communication in classical antiquity and early modern times. He is co-editor of Self-Presentation and Social Identification: The Rhetoric and Pragmatics of Letter Writing in Early Modern Times (Leuven, 2002).
Jan L. de Jong Ph.D. (1987) in Art History, Leiden University, is assistant professor of Italian Renaissance Art at Groningen University, The Netherlands. He has published numerous articles on Italian Renaissance painting.
Zoran Kwak carried out research on the pictorial tradition and meaning of Dutch kitchen scenes (c. 1590–1640) as a Ph.D. student at Leiden University since 1997. At the moment he works at the Dutch University Institute for Art History in Florence and prepares the publication of the volume dedicated to Latium and Rome of the Repertory of Dutch and Flemish Paintings in Italian Collections.
Marijke Spies Ph.D. in Literary History (1979) is professor emeritus in pre-1770 Dutch literature at the Free University, Amsterdam, and in the History of Rhetoric at the University of Amsterdam. She has published monographies and articles in both disciplines. Her writings in English are collected under the title Rhetoric, Rhetoricians and Poets. Studies in Renaissance Poetry and Poetics (Amsterdam UP, 1999).
Marc van Vaeck is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Literature at the University of Leuven and has published on 16th- and 17th-century Dutch literature, and Dutch emblem literature. His doctoral dissertation was published in 1994: Adriaen van de Vennes Tafereel van de Belacchende Werelt (Den Haag, 1635). 3 vols. (Gent: Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde, 1994).