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  Is it ever
acceptable to lie? This question plays a surprisingly important role in the story of Europe’s transition from
medieval to modern society. According to many historians, Europe became modern when Europeans began to lie—that
is, when they began to argue that it is sometimes acceptable to lie. This popular account offers a clear trajectory of
historical progression from a medieval world of faith, in which every lie is sinful, to a more worldly early modern
society in which lying becomes a permissible strategy for self-defense and self-advancement. Unfortunately, this story
is wrong.
  
  For medieval and early modern Christians, the problem of the lie was the problem of human
existence itself. To ask “Is it ever acceptable to lie?” was to ask how we, as sinners, should live in a
fallen world. As it turns out, the answer to that question depended on who did the asking. The Devil Wins uncovers the
complicated history of lying from the early days of the Catholic Church to the Enlightenment, revealing the diversity of
attitudes about lying by considering the question from the perspectives of five representative voices—the Devil,
God, theologians, courtiers, and women. Examining works by Augustine, Bonaventure, Martin Luther, Madeleine de
Scudéry, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and a host of others, Dallas G. Denery II shows how the lie, long thought to be the
source of worldly corruption, eventually became the very basis of social cohesion and peace.
  
  Dallas G.
Denery II is associate professor of history at Bowdoin College. He is the author of Seeing and Being Seen in the Later
Medieval World: Optics, Theology, and Religious Life and the coeditor of Uncertain Knowledge: Scepticism, Relativism,
and Doubt in the Middle Ages.
  
   
  PRAISE
  "[The Devil Wins is] an informative,
sophisticated, and thought-provoking account of the efforts of theologians and philosophers from the early Christian era
to the Enlightenment to define lies and understand their ethical, social, and political implications."--Glenn
Altschuler, Psychology Today
  
  "Denery explores analyses of an enormous variety of deceptions, and does so
with an erudition that is never pedantic or monotonous. He is an entertaining writer, with a healthy skepticism about
the dogmatic condemnation of lying as always, or even mostly, morally blameworthy. . . . I think Nietzsche would have
loved this book."--Clancy Martin, Chronicle of Higher Education
  
  "The Devil Wins is a learned and
accessible introduction to a fascinating subject."--Biancamaria Fontana, Times Higher Education
  
  "What
emerges through all five chapters is a fascinating trajectory that takes us from a time when lies were considered by
some theologians to be absolutely and categorically sinful, to an age when it was widely accepted that modern society
depended on them . . . well researched, fluidly written, and persuasively argued."--Hans Rollman, PopMatters 
  
  "In this exquisitely written book, Denery draws on centuries of rumination on the moral issues surrounding lying to
address the question of how we should live in a fallen world. The serpent in the Garden of Eden led humankind astray
with lies. The Devil is the father of lies. Premodern sources agonized constantly over the act of lying. Denery not only
superbly narrates the long history of this obsession, but also locates the conditions that reveal an Enlightenment shift
toward a not entirely comfortable modernity."--William Chester Jordan, Princeton University 						

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