Beschreibung:
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.
An investigation into the impostors, fakes and frauds of Early modern Europe and the frantic search by the authorities for reliable means of identification
Preface Introducing an Age of Impostors Religious Dissimulation False Ambassadors, Fabulous Lands Underworlds Gypsies, or Such as Do Counterfeit The Body as Evidence Judging by Appearances Paperwork: Identification Documents Conclusion: Reserving Judgement Bibliography Index