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Faking It!
The Performance of Forgery in Late Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Series: - Intersections, Volume: 84
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.
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.
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 GrÃðarfóstra (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 womenâs writing, such as âLouïze Labé Lïonnoize. The Making of an Early Modern Authorâ in Renaissance Studies (2021).
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 womenâs writing, such as âLouïze Labé Lïonnoize. The Making of an Early Modern Authorâ in Renaissance Studies (2021).
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
1 Introduction: The Performance of Forgery
âPhilip Lavender and Matilda Amundsen Bergström
2 Forgery, Audience and Authentication: Icelandic Agreements of the Fifteenth Century
âPatricia 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
âFederica Boldrini
4 Re-Forging a Forgery: The French Editions of Annius of Viterboâs Antiquitates
âLorenzo Paoli
5 Prenatal Prophecies and Linguistic Ciphers: A Russian Political Forgery Devoted to the Autocratic Evil of Ivan the Terrible
âBrian J. Boeck
6 Girolamo Baruffaldi as a Forger: The Case of Barbara Torelli
âCamilla Russo
7 The Deceptive Power of a Monogram: Appropriating Dürerâs Identity in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries
âKsenija Tschetschik-Hammerl
8 Mind Your Uâs and Vâs!: Counterfeiting Newspapers in Civil War Britain
âLaurent Curelly
9 The Theatre of Forgery: Curzio Inghirami (Volterra, 1614â1655) and Giorgio Grognet de Vassé (Malta, 1774â1862)
âIngrid Rowland
10 Sailing and Sinking on the Sea of Forgery: The Tradition of Fake Sagas in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Sweden and Denmark
âPhilip Lavender
11 Of Theatrical Illusion and Fake Advertisements: George Bickham the Younger, Samuel Foote and the Great Bottle Hoax of 1749
âJacqueline Hylkema
12 Counterfeiting Coins and Convict Transportation from England to Australia in the Eighteenth Century
âHelen Hughes
Index Nominum
List of Figures
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
1 Introduction: The Performance of Forgery
âPhilip Lavender and Matilda Amundsen Bergström
2 Forgery, Audience and Authentication: Icelandic Agreements of the Fifteenth Century
âPatricia 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
âFederica Boldrini
4 Re-Forging a Forgery: The French Editions of Annius of Viterboâs Antiquitates
âLorenzo Paoli
5 Prenatal Prophecies and Linguistic Ciphers: A Russian Political Forgery Devoted to the Autocratic Evil of Ivan the Terrible
âBrian J. Boeck
6 Girolamo Baruffaldi as a Forger: The Case of Barbara Torelli
âCamilla Russo
7 The Deceptive Power of a Monogram: Appropriating Dürerâs Identity in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries
âKsenija Tschetschik-Hammerl
8 Mind Your Uâs and Vâs!: Counterfeiting Newspapers in Civil War Britain
âLaurent Curelly
9 The Theatre of Forgery: Curzio Inghirami (Volterra, 1614â1655) and Giorgio Grognet de Vassé (Malta, 1774â1862)
âIngrid Rowland
10 Sailing and Sinking on the Sea of Forgery: The Tradition of Fake Sagas in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Sweden and Denmark
âPhilip Lavender
11 Of Theatrical Illusion and Fake Advertisements: George Bickham the Younger, Samuel Foote and the Great Bottle Hoax of 1749
âJacqueline Hylkema
12 Counterfeiting Coins and Convict Transportation from England to Australia in the Eighteenth Century
âHelen Hughes
Index Nominum
All interested in art, literary or cultural history of the medieval and early modern periods, especially researchers working with questions of authenticity or teachers and students discussing forgery. Keywords: fabrication, counterfeit, deception, hoax, renaissance, Lorenzo Valla, Annius of Viterbo, Ossian, saga, lawbook, prophecy, monogram, newspaper, manuscript, artefact.