Renaissance Impostors And Proofs Of Identity
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780230547063
Description: 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.