Renaissance Impostors and Proofs of Identity
Format: Print Book
ISBN: 9780230547063
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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.
Publication Year: 2012
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: H
Weight (Gram): 505