Faking It!

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).

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresNotes on the EditorsNotes on the Contributors1 Introduction: The Performance of ForgeryPhilip Lavender and Matilda Amundsen Bergström2 Forgery, Audience and Authentication: Icelandic Agreements of the Fifteenth CenturyPatricia Pires Boulhosa3 All That Glitters Is Not Gold: False Jewellery and Its Juridical Regulation in Italy between the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern PeriodFederica Boldrini4 Re-Forging a Forgery: The French Editions of Annius of Viterbo’s AntiquitatesLorenzo Paoli5 Prenatal Prophecies and Linguistic Ciphers: A Russian Political Forgery Devoted to the Autocratic Evil of Ivan the TerribleBrian J. Boeck6 Girolamo Baruffaldi as a Forger: The Case of Barbara TorelliCamilla Russo7 The Deceptive Power of a Monogram: Appropriating Dürer’s Identity in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth CenturiesKsenija Tschetschik-Hammerl8 Mind Your U’s and V’s!: Counterfeiting Newspapers in Civil War BritainLaurent Curelly9 The Theatre of Forgery: Curzio Inghirami (Volterra, 1614–1655) and Giorgio Grognet de Vassé (Malta, 1774–1862)Ingrid Rowland10 Sailing and Sinking on the Sea of Forgery: The Tradition of Fake Sagas in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Sweden and DenmarkPhilip Lavender11 Of Theatrical Illusion and Fake Advertisements: George Bickham the Younger, Samuel Foote and the Great Bottle Hoax of 1749Jacqueline Hylkema12 Counterfeiting Coins and Convict Transportation from England to Australia in the Eighteenth CenturyHelen HughesIndex Nominum