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Renaissance Impostors and Proofs of Identity 2012th Edition
Author(s): M. Eliav-Feldon (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 24 Oct. 2012
- Edition: 2012th
- Language: English
- Print length: 299 pages
- ISBN-10: 0230547060
- ISBN-13: 9780230547063
Book 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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Miriam Eliav-Feldon has produced an invaluable account of the remarkably wide range of modes of imposture that were employed by men and women in early modern Europe. … Renaissance Impostors is well written, carefully organized, and supremely accessible. … All those who study early modern European history and culture, from undergraduates to established specialists, will find these pages to be thought provoking, and Eliav-Feldon’s book should deservedly find its way onto syllabi in a wide range of fields for years to come.” – The Journal of Modern History
About the Author
MIRIAM ELIAV-FELDON is Professor of Modern History at Tel Aviv University, Israel. She is Head of the Morris E. Curiel Institute for European Studies and Editor-in-chief of Zmanim – A Historical Quarterly. She has also authored numerous books, including Realistic Utopias (OUP, 1982) and Le périple de Francesco Pucci (Hachette, 1988).
