WWFD or What Would a Forger Do: A Critical Inquiry of Poorly Argued Contemporary Cases for Forgery

This article discusses the contemporary debates on fakes and forgeries and notes the lack of constrained criteria in the evaluation of suspected manuscripts. Instead of controlled criteria, scholars have opted for an informal and non-explicated method—here labeled WWFD (What Would a Forger Do?)—in w...

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Main Author: Timo S. Paananen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2020-10-01
Series:Open Library of Humanities
Online Access:https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/4654/