Literary forgery in early modern Europe, 1450-1800 /
"This book is dedicated to literary forgeries in Europe from the early modern period through the Enlightenment. The organizing principle of the volume is the study of literary and historiographical forgery--in print and manuscripts, not art forgery or counterfeiting--from classical and biblical...
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : forgery's Valhalla / Walter Stephens and Earle A. Havens
- Hoax and forgery, whimsy and fraud : taxonomic reflections on the Bibliotheca fictiva / Arthur Freeman
- Babelic confusion : literary forgery and the Bibliotheca fictiva / Earle A. Havens
- Forgery, misattribution, and a case of secondary pseudonymity : Aethicus Ister's Cosmography and its early modern multiplications / Frederic Clark
- Marvelous history : authority and credibility in medieval histories of Troy / E.R. Truitt
- Forging relations between East and West : the invented letters of Sultan Mehmed II / James K. Coleman
- Fashioning Noah : how a forger turned an Etruscan god into a Biblical figure / Shana D. O'Connell
- Annius of Viterbo as a student of the Jews : the sources of his information / Anthony Grafton
- Exposing the archforger : Annius of Viterbo's first master critic / Walter Stephens
- Inventing Gallic antiquities in Renaissance France / Richard Cooper
- Material and textual forgery in the Lead books of Granada / A. Katie Harris
- Melchior Inchofer, S.J., and the letter of the Virgin Mary to the citizens of Messina /Ingrid Rowland
- 'Make way for the ghost!' : Forgery, patriotic mythology, and the living dead / Kate E. Tunstall
- England's Ireland, Ireland's England : William Henry Ireland's national offense / Jack Lynch.