Early Modern Europe was teeming with impostors. Identity theft was only one form of misrepresentation: royal pretenders, envoys from imaginary lands, religious dissimulators, cross-dressers, false Gypsies - all these caused deep anxiety, leading authorities to invent increasingly sophisticated means for unmasking deception.
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Eliav-Feldon, M. (2012). Renaissance Impostors and Proofs of Identity. Renaissance Impostors and Proofs of Identity (pp. 1–291). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137291370
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