| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.2

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Book Review

Methods/Theory

Alfred Hiatt. The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England. (The British Library Studies in Medieval Culture.) London: The British Library, and Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press. 2004. Pp. xiv, 226. $60.00.

In the past decade and a half, a number of books have examined what might be called the "theory" of forgery, rethinking the practice rather than dismissing it, and provoking a fierce and as yet unresolved debate. The emphasis is now likely to shift toward focused studies concentrating on precise cultural moments to test the arguments of Anthony Grafton, Susan Stewart, K. K. Ruthven, and myself. Alfred Hiatt's monograph is a fine example of what we might hope for, an informed, carefully researched, and beautifully produced reassessment of four medieval forgeries: the archive of Crowland Abbey, the annals of the University of Cambridge, the chronicles of John Hardyng, and the "Donation of Constantine."

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