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Renaissance Impostors and Proofs of Identity

By:M. Eliav-Feldon
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230547063
eText ISBN:9781137291370
Edition:0
Copyright:2012
Format:Page Fidelity

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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.