Forged texts In The Middle Ages: Why Holy Men Became Counterfeiters
Published: February 4, 2021 at 7:08 am The desire to deceive – and be deceived – is universal, and the forging of documents as old as writing itself. In ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, local priests – the experts in literacy – forged inscriptions in the names of earlier pharaohs and kings, claiming rights of preferential treatment. And scarcely a society can be found since in which such skulduggery was not practised in some form or another. Advertisement But few regions in world history can rival medieval Europe for the sheer scale of forging. As modern scholars have establis...
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