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Renaissance Impostors and Proofs of Identity
Miriam Eliav-Feldon
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Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 482.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
291
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230547063
SKU
V9780230547063
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About Miriam Eliav-Feldon
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).
Reviews for Renaissance Impostors and Proofs of Identity
"Miriam Eliav-Feldon has produced an invaluable account of the remarkably wide range of modes of imposture that were employed by men and women in early modern Europe. ... Renaissance Impostors is well written, carefully organized, and supremely accessible. ... All those who study early modern European history and culture, from undergraduates to established specialists, will find these pages to be ... Read more