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Book SynopsisFaking It! collects eleven chapters which explore the question of forgery from different disciplinary angles: literary historical and art historical contributions share space with discussions of jewels, architecture and coinage. The various case studies take as their focus developments in Renaissance Italy and early modern England as well as in France, Germany, Malta, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, Russia and Australia. While each chapter contributes to a better understanding of the local context of cultural production, together they suggest new answers to how we can understand forgery. The concept of performance allows us to see beyond normative approaches and gain insight into some of the ambiguities concerning the nature of forgery. Contributors to this volume: Brian J. Boeck, Federica Boldrini, Patricia Pires Boulhosa, Laurent Curelly, Helen Hughes, Jacqueline Hylkema, Philip Lavender, Lorenzo Paoli, Ingrid Rowland, Camilla Russo and Ksenija Tschetschik-Hammerl.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors 1 Introduction: The Performance of Forgery Philip Lavender and Matilda Amundsen Bergström 2 Forgery, Audience and Authentication: Icelandic Agreements of the Fifteenth Century Patricia Pires Boulhosa 3 All That Glitters Is Not Gold: False Jewellery and Its Juridical Regulation in Italy between the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period Federica Boldrini 4 Re-Forging a Forgery: The French Editions of Annius of Viterbo’s Antiquitates Lorenzo Paoli 5 Prenatal Prophecies and Linguistic Ciphers: A Russian Political Forgery Devoted to the Autocratic Evil of Ivan the Terrible Brian J. Boeck 6 Girolamo Baruffaldi as a Forger: The Case of Barbara Torelli Camilla Russo 7 The Deceptive Power of a Monogram: Appropriating Dürer’s Identity in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries Ksenija Tschetschik-Hammerl 8 Mind Your U’s and V’s!: Counterfeiting Newspapers in Civil War Britain Laurent Curelly 9 The Theatre of Forgery: Curzio Inghirami (Volterra, 1614–1655) and Giorgio Grognet de Vassé (Malta, 1774–1862) Ingrid Rowland 10 Sailing and Sinking on the Sea of Forgery: The Tradition of Fake Sagas in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Sweden and Denmark Philip Lavender 11 Of Theatrical Illusion and Fake Advertisements: George Bickham the Younger, Samuel Foote and the Great Bottle Hoax of 1749 Jacqueline Hylkema 12 Counterfeiting Coins and Convict Transportation from England to Australia in the Eighteenth Century Helen Hughes Index Nominum
