Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe.

"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 co...

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Main Author: Snyder, Jon R., 1954-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: CA : University of California Press, 2009.
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