Author: M. Eliav-Feldon
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137291370
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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.