Faking It!

The Performance of Forgery in Late Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-44948-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 84, 362 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 823 g

Reihe: Intersections

Faking It! collects eleven chapters which explore the question of forgery from different disciplinary angles: literary historical and art historical contributions share space with discussions of jewels, architecture and coinage. The various case studies take as their focus developments in Renaissance Italy and early modern England as well as in France, Germany, Malta, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, Russia and Australia. While each chapter contributes to a better understanding of the local context of cultural production, together they suggest new answers to how we can understand forgery. The concept of performance allows us to see beyond normative approaches and gain insight into some of the ambiguities concerning the nature of forgery.

Contributors to this volume: Brian J. Boeck, Federica Boldrini, Patricia Pires Boulhosa, Laurent Curelly, Helen Hughes, Jacqueline Hylkema, Philip Lavender, Lorenzo Paoli, Ingrid Rowland, Camilla Russo and Ksenija Tschetschik-Hammerl.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lavender, Philip

Amundsen Bergström, Matilda

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Notes on the Editors

Notes on the Contributors

1 Introduction: The Performance of Forgery

Philip Lavender and Matilda Amundsen Bergström

2 Forgery, Audience and Authentication: Icelandic Agreements of the Fifteenth Century

Patricia Pires Boulhosa

3 All That Glitters Is Not Gold: False Jewellery and Its Juridical Regulation in Italy between the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period

Federica Boldrini

4 Re-Forging a Forgery: The French Editions of Annius of Viterbo’s Antiquitates

Lorenzo Paoli

5 Prenatal Prophecies and Linguistic Ciphers: A Russian Political Forgery Devoted to the Autocratic Evil of Ivan the Terrible

Brian J. Boeck

6 Girolamo Baruffaldi as a Forger: The Case of Barbara Torelli

Camilla Russo

7 The Deceptive Power of a Monogram: Appropriating Dürer’s Identity in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries

Ksenija Tschetschik-Hammerl

8 Mind Your U’s and V’s!: Counterfeiting Newspapers in Civil War Britain

Laurent Curelly

9 The Theatre of Forgery: Curzio Inghirami (Volterra, 1614–1655) and Giorgio Grognet de Vassé (Malta, 1774–1862)

Ingrid Rowland

10 Sailing and Sinking on the Sea of Forgery: The Tradition of Fake Sagas in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Sweden and Denmark

Philip Lavender

11 Of Theatrical Illusion and Fake Advertisements: George Bickham the Younger, Samuel Foote and the Great Bottle Hoax of 1749

Jacqueline Hylkema

12 Counterfeiting Coins and Convict Transportation from England to Australia in the Eighteenth Century

Helen Hughes

Index Nominum

Über Autor(innen)

Philip Lavender, Ph.D. (2015, University of Copenhagen) is a researcher at the University of Gothenburg. He is the author of Long Lives of Short Sagas: The Irrepressibility of Narrative and the Case of Illuga saga Gríðarfóstra (2020).

Matilda Amundsen Bergström, Ph.D. (2019, University of Gothenburg) is a researcher at the University of Gothenburg. She has published many articles on early modern women’s writing, such as “Louïze Labé Lïonnoize. The Making of an Early Modern Author” in Renaissance Studies (2021).