Renaissance Impostors and Proofs of Identity

M. Eliav-Feldon (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

291 Seiten

2012
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-54706-3 (ISBN)

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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.

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 - A Historical Quarterly. She has also authored numerous books, including Realistic Utopias (OUP, 1982) and Le périple de Francesco Pucci (Hachette, 1988).

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

Zusatzinfo	VIII, 291 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-230-54706-0 / 0230547060
ISBN-13	978-0-230-54706-3 / 9780230547063
Zustand	Neuware