Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Part I: Definitions and Distinctions
5. Chapter 1 Introduction: Angles of Authenticity 1
6. Chapter 2 Homo authenticus 27
7. Part II: Forging Authenticity
8. Chapter 3 Paradoxes of Authenticity in the Pseudo- Ovidian De vetula 57
9. Chapter 4 Forging Catiline: Portraits of the Arch- Conspirator in Medieval and Early Modern Pseudepigrapha 75
10. Part III: Histories
11. Chapter 5 Evidence, Truth, and Authenticity in the Vita Haroldi 97
12. Chapter 6 “Enucleator venio, non impugnator”: The Uneven Authority of Pseudohistories in the Works of Gerald of Wales 119
13. Chapter 7 Relics of Something True: Constructing the Authentic in Milton’s History of Britain 145
14. Part IV: Translations
15. Chapter 8 Authenticity through Collaborative (Re)translation: The Ovide moralisé and Its Successors 169
16. Chapter 9 An Exemplary Fake: The Letters of Pseudo- Phalaris in the Italian Quattrocento 193
17. Part V: Continuations and Canon-Formation
18. Chapter 10 Authenticity, Apocrypha, and the Early Modern Chaucer Canon 215
19. Chapter 11 The Varieties of Authenticity in Renaissance Classical Supplements 243
20. Contributor Information 269
21. Index 271