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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Theologians Ask the Question
Chapter One. The Devil
Six Days and Two Sentences Later
The Devil and the Lie
Making Sense of Genesis 1, 2, and 3
The Devil’s Lie from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages
The Devil’s Lie from the Middle Ages to the Reformation
The Prince of This World
From Satan’s Stratagems to Human Nature
Chapter Two. God
Can God Lie?
On Lions, Fishhooks, and Mousetraps
Divine Deception and the Sacrament of Truth
Luther, Calvin, and the Hidden God
René Descartes, Pierre Bayle, and the End of Divine Deception
Chapter Three. Human Beings
Every Lie Is a Sin
Every Sin Is a Lie
Biblical Liars
Augustine among the Scholastics
Institutional Transformations
Equivocation, Mental Reservation, and Amphibology
From Pascal to Augustine and Beyond
Part Two: Courtiers and Women Ask the Question
Chapter Four. Courtiers
Flatterers, Wheedlers, and Gossipmongers
Early Modern Uncertainty and Deception
Uncertainty and Skepticism in the Medieval Court
Entangled in Leviathan’s Loins
Christine de Pizan and Just Hypocrisy
From Lies to Civility
Bernard Mandeville and the World Lies Built
Chapter Five. Women
Lessons about Lies
All about Eve, All about Women
The Biology of Feminine Deceit
Christine de Pizan, Misogyny, and Self-Knowledge
All Men Are Liars
Madeleine de Scudéry, the Salon, and the Pleasant Lie
Conclusion: The Lie Becomes Modern
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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