Forgers and Critics, New Edition - Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship

Informationen zum Autor Anthony GraftonWith a foreword by Ann Blair and a new afterword by the author Klappentext Just as it 'takes a thief to catch a thief, ' so the forger greatly aids the search for historical truth, maintains Anthony Grafton in this wide-ranging exploration of the links between forgery and scholarship. Labeling forgery the 'criminal sibling' of criticism, he describes a panorama of remarkable individuals---forgers, from classical Greece through the recent past, who produced a variety of splendid triumphs of learning and style, and scholarly detectives, who honed the tools of scholarship in attempts to unmask these skillful fakers. Zusammenfassung The close links between forgery and criticism throughout history In Forgers and Critics , Anthony Grafton provides a wide-ranging exploration of the links between forgery and scholarship. Labeling forgery the “criminal sibling” of criticism, Grafton describes a panorama of remarkable individuals—forgers from classical Greece through the recent past—who produced a variety of splendid triumphs of learning and style, as well as the scholarly detectives who honed the tools of scholarship in attempts to unmask these skillful fakers. In the process, Grafton discloses the extent, the coherence, and the historical interest of two significant and tightly intertwined strands in the Western intellectual tradition.

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• Authors: Anthony Grafton, Anthony/ Blair Grafton, Grafton Anthony
• Assisted by: Ann Blair (Foreword), Blair Ann (Foreword)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9780691191836
• ISBN: 978-0-691-19183-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; History: specific events & topics, History: specific events and topics, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance