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Shell games : studies in scams, frauds, and deceits (1300-1650) / edited by Mark Crane, Richard Raiswell, Margaret Reeves.
- Title
- Shell games : studies in scams, frauds, and deceits (1300-1650) / edited by Mark Crane, Richard Raiswell, Margaret Reeves.
- Publication
- Toronto : Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2004.
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- Description
- xi, 334 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Essays and studies ; 4
- Uniform Title
- Essays and studies (Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies) 4.
- Subject
- 476-1648
- Deception > Europe > History > Congresses
- Fraud > Europe > History > Congresses
- Tromperie > Europe > Histoire > Congrès
- Fraude > Europe > Histoire > Congrès
- Europe > Histoire > 1492-1648 > Congrès
- Europe > Congrès. > 476-1492
- Europe > History > 1492-1648 > Congresses
- Europe > Congresses. > 476-1492
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings
- History
- Note
- Papers originally presented at a conference held at the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, April 28, 2001.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The problem of fraud in early modern alchemy / Tara E. Nummedal -- "He is indeed a kind of Scholler-Mountebank" : academic liars in Jacobean satire / Sarah Knight -- Good information, bad information and misinformation in fifteenth-century Italian diplomacy / Paul M. Dover -- "Tis policy and stratagem must do" : rape, deception, and vendetta in The most lamentable Roman tragedy of Titus Andronicus / Michael Cichon -- Whence springs the lie? Motive and fraud in the Manosquin criminal court (1340-1403) / Steven Bednarski -- Mock and clandestine marriages, deceits, and games in Jewish Italian communities in the early modern period / Roni Weinstein -- The weamen of Middlesex : faux female voices in the English revolution / Georgia Wilder -- Widowhood and deception : ambiguities of queenship in late medieval Crown of Aragon / Núria Silleras-Fernández -- Side-stepping the censor : the clandestine trade in prohibited texts in early modern Augsburg / Allyson F. Creasman -- Rogues, counterfeiters, and forgers : surreptitious printing in the popular literature of Renaissance England / Michael Long -- Sex, lies, and manuscript : on the "castration" of the Lindau Archives / Johannes C. Wolfart -- The deceived as deceiver : false testimony in the case of Robert of Artois / Dana L. Sample -- The myth of Mother Shipton : prophet-making and profit-taking / David A. Wilson.
- ISBN
- 0772720231 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2004445268
- OCLC
- 54691720
- SCSB-12425084
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library