by Miriam Eliav-Feldon (Author)
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.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 312
Edition: 2012
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: 24 Oct 2012
ISBN 10: 0230547060
ISBN 13: 9780230547063