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 com...
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| Summary: | "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 commoners alike-chose to practice the shadowy art of dissimulation. For men and women who could not risk revealing their inner lives to those around them, this art of incommunicativity was crucial, both personally and politically. Many writers and intellectuals sought to explain, expose, justify, or condemn the emergence. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (307 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-271) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520944442 0520944445 1282361031 9781282361034 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |