The Devil Wins: A History of Lying from the Garden of Eden to the Enlightenment (58 page)

Quintillian,
234

Radbertus, Paschasius,
78
–
79

Rainolds, John,
159
–
60
,
170
–
71

Régis, Pierre Sylvain,
99

rhetoric: Castiglione on,
161
–
62
; Cicero on,
169
–
70
; and ethics,
169
–
75
; and gender,
232
–
35
,
239
–
40
; and God,
103
–
4
; John of Salisbury on,
165
–
73
; Rainolds on,
159
–
60
; Scudéry and,
239
–
41
; and skepticism,
159
–
68
,
170
–
71

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: and Augustine,
251
–
52
; on the Fall,
247
–
49
; on lying,
250
–
52
; on the origin of deception,
247
–
50
; on sincerity,
254

Rupert of Deutz,
205
–
7
,
261n17

salon,
238

Salust, Guillaume de, Sieur du Bartas,
33

Scotus, John Duns,
124
–
26

Scudéry, Madeleine de: on bad conversation,
237
–
39
; on complaisance,
241
,
243
–
45
; on lying,
245
–
46
; on self-interest,
240
–
41

self-knowledge: Christine de Pizan on,
216
–
25
; Fonte on,
235
–
36
; John of Salisbury on,
153
–
54
,
163
–
67
,
170
–
71
,
175
–
76
; La Rochefoucauld on,
195
; Nicole on,
195
; Scudéry on,
242
–
43

self-love,
194
–
98

serpent.
See
Devil

Semiramis,
223
–
24

skepticism: Castiglione and,
161
–
63
; Charron on,
160
–
61
; Christine de Pizan and,
164
–
65
; and the court,
160
–
62
,
164
–
67
; Descartes and,
159
; and European historiography,
158
–
59
,
162
–
63
; and Early Modern Europe,
158
–
63
; John of Salisbury on,
164
–
68
; and perplexity,
173
–
75
; and prudence,
160
–
63
; Rainolds on,
160
; and rhetoric,
159
–
68

simulation.
See
dissimulation

sincerity,
254
,
259n17

Souvré, Madeleine de,
193
–
94

Temptation.
See
Fall

Trilling, Lionel,
259n17

truth, virtue of: and justice,
119
–
21

uncertainty.
See
skepticism

Vincent of Beauvais: on ancient custom,
224
; on Eve,
207
–
8

Voragine, Jacobus,
207

Walker, Nathaniel: and civility,
183
,
188
–
90
; on flattery,
183
–
84
; on lying,
188
–
90

William of Auxerre,
78

Woman, the.
See
Eve

women: and adornment,
208
–
10
,
230
–
35
; Aristotle on,
211
–
12
; Bartholomew the Englishman on,
213
; Boccaccio on,
221
–
24
; Christine de Pizan on,
21
–
25
; and Eve,
202
–
3
; and marriage,
236
–
37
; as natural liars,
200
–
204
,
215
–
16
; Tertullian on,
203
,
208
–
10
,
232
.
See also
misogyny

Women’s Secrets
,
216

Wyclif, John,
85
–
88