Faking It!: The Performance of Forgery in Late Medieval and Early Modern Culture(84 Intersections)

Faking 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 Contents:
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 Index Nominum

About the Author :
Philip Lavender, Ph.D. (2015, University of Copenhagen) is a researcher at the University of Gothenburg. He is the author of Long Lives of Short Sagas: The Irrepressibility of Narrative and the Case of Illuga saga Gríðarfóstra (2020). Matilda Amundsen Bergström, Ph.D. (2019, University of Gothenburg) is a researcher at the University of Gothenburg. She has published many articles on early modern women’s writing, such as “Louïze Labé Lïonnoize. The Making of an Early Modern Author” in Renaissance Studies (2021).