Frauds, Forgeries, and Fake News Collection
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Language: English
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This collection showcases fabricated documents and stories throughout history, and the diversity of purposes and contexts they were deployed in.<br><br>The "Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal" is a fabricated anti-Catholic eye-witness account, published in 1836 and purporting to reveal the horrors of life in a convent.<br><br>
The Donation of Constantine is a forged imperial decree, supposedly enacting a perpetual transfer of authority over the western part of the Roman Emp