Forgers and Critics, New Edition
Autor: | Grafton, Anthony |
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EAN: | 9780691191836 |
Sachgruppe: | Geschichte |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Seitenzahl: | 192 |
Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 16.04.2019 |
Untertitel: | Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship |
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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.