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Renaissance Impostors and Proofs of Identity M. Eliav-Feldon
Renaissance Impostors and Proofs of Identity
M. Eliav-Feldon
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.
304 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | October 24, 2012 |
| ISBN13 | 9780230547063 |
| Publishers | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 291 |
| Dimensions | 223 × 156 × 22 mm · 453 g |