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The Baroque and Enlightenment eras proved to be just as fertile for forgery, including devastating demolitions of several of the most enduring ancient forgeries (e.g., the ‘Donatio Constantini,’ ‘Corpus Hermeticum,’ and the Sibylline Books) and imaginative concoctions of others, including an Elizabethan invention of Anglo-Saxon laws as ...
The supposed lost book was declared an obvious hoax by the Monthly Review in the December of the year of publication. [4]The printer Jacob Ilive was sentenced in 1756 to three years' imprisonment with hard labour in the House of Correction at Clerkenwell, for writing, printing, and publishing the anonymous pamphlet Some Remarks on the excellent Discourses lately published by a very worthy ...
Literary forgery (also known as literary mystification, literary fraud or literary hoax) is writing, such as a manuscript or a literary work, which is either deliberately misattributed to a historical or invented author, or is a purported memoir or other presumably nonfictional writing deceptively presented as true when, in fact, it presents ...
In his 2020 book Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife, Sabar reports discovering a modern forgery that Fritz submitted with his job applications in 2013 to the Sarasota County (FL) Schools: a fake master's degree [29] in Egyptology from the Free University of Berlin. When asked about it, Fritz declined comment ...
The book is an apocalypse wherein Daniel offers a series of predictions of the future, ... Forgery and Counterforgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian ...
The extraordinary real-life story of a friendship between a reformed ex-art forger and the police officer who arrested him has emerged in Jeffrey Archer's latest crime novel An Eye For An Eye, out ...
Book of Jasher – the name of a lost book mentioned several times in the Bible, which was subject to at least two high-profile forgeries in the 18th and 19th century. [2] [3] Gospel of Josephus – 1927 forgery attributed to Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, actually created by Italian writer Luigi Moccia to raise publicity for one of his ...
Part mystery, part adventure, all word game -- in today's Game of the Day, The Book of Treasures, you play as Jessica, a librarian hunting for a lost Egyptian manuscript. One day, Jessica finds a ...