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Renaissance Impostors and Proofs of Identity

Renaissance Impostors and Proofs of Identity

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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.

Keywords

HistorySocial HistoryEuropeModernWorld

2012Book

Author(s)Miriam Eliav-Feldon

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK

ISBN9780230547063

LanguageEnglish

SpringerLink Book

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