Renaissance Impostors and Proofs of Identity

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-349-36138-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 291 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 380 g

Early Modern Europe was teeming with impostors. Identity theft was only one form of misrepresentation: royal pretenders, envoys from imaginary lands, religious dissimulators, cross-dressers, false Gypsies - all these caused deep anxiety, leading authorities to invent increasingly sophisticated means for unmasking deception.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eliav-Feldon, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Introducing an Age of Impostors Religious Dissimulation False Ambassadors, Fabulous Lands Underworlds Gypsies, or Such as Do Counterfeit The Body as Evidence Judging by Appearances Paperwork: Identification Documents Conclusion: Reserving Judgement Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

MIRIAM ELIAV-FELDON is Professor of Modern History at Tel Aviv University, Israel. She is Head of the Morris E. Curiel Institute for European Studies and Editor-in-chief of Zmanim - . She has also authored numerous books, including Realistic Utopias (OUP, 1982) and Le périple de Francesco Pucci (Hachette, 1988).