Fifth Annual Bibliotheca Fictiva Lecture and 'Literary Forgery' Book Signing

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Frederic Clark, assistant professor of classics at the University of Southern California, will deliver the fifth-annual Bibliotheca Fictiva Lecture for the Sheridan Libraries' Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance.

The lecture is entitled, "The First Pagan Historian: Dares Phrygius and the Forging of Troy from Isidore of Seville to Thomas Jefferson."

A reception will follow, featuring a book signing with Earle Havens and Walter Stephens, editors of Literary Forgery in Early Modern Europe, 1450–1800 (JHU Press, 2019). This new collection of essays draws inspiration from Johns Hopkins University's acquisition of the Bibliotheca Fictiva, the world's premier research collection dedicated exclusively to the subject of literary forgery.

The event is co-sponsored by the Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe and the Department of Classics.