DIGIRENT - Forgers and Critics: Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship
Anthony Grafton
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Forgers and Critics: Creativity Anthony Grafton epub Forgers and Critics: Creativity Anthony Grafton pdf download Forgers and Critics: Creativity Anthony Grafton pdf file Forgers and Critics: Creativity Anthony Grafton audiobook Forgers and Critics: Creativity Anthony Grafton book review Forgers and Critics: Creativity Anthony Grafton summary | #2183000 in Books | 1990-03-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x6.00 x.75l, | File type: PDF | 168 pages||9 of 11 people found the following review helpful.| anecdotal|By A Customer|A short book on the history of forged historical documents, and efforts to detect them, from ancient to modern times. It skips around too much, without giving enough context for most of its anecdotes. Part of its larger message is that both practices are age-old, and that the higher criticism of 19c Germany was not as new as it seemed. Also, forgery||"Grafton makes clear that the master forger must also be ... a scholar ... as knowledgeable as those whom he is trying to fool.... This elegant monograph ranges from Porphyry through Isaac Casaubon ... on to Scaliger, Chatterton and others, though its focus re
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, w...
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