Renaissance Impostors and Proofs of Identity
M. Eliav-Feldon
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
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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.
- ISBN-13
- 9781349361380
- ISBN-10
- 1349361380
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Year
- 2012
- Publication date
- 2012-01-01
- Pages
- 291
- Dimensions
- 216x140x