Faking It!

Acknowledgements

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

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