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 historyIn 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 pa

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• Auteurs: Anthony Grafton, Anthony T Grafton, Anthony T. Grafton, Anthony/ Blair Grafton, Grafton Anthony
• Collaboration: Ann Blair (Préface), Blair Ann (Préface)
• Edition: Princeton University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9780691191836
• ISBN: 978-0-691-19183-6
• Pages: 192
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Epoque moderne jusqu'en 1918; History: specific events & topics, History: specific events and topics, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance