Power Of The Charlatan by Grete De Francesco
A cultural history of imposture that traces how quacks, miracle-sellers, and pseudo-scientists from the Renaissance to modern mass society manufactured authority through costumes, jargon, props, and staged demonstrations. Using vivid case studies and period images, it analyzes the psychology of belief and crowd behavior, the tools of persuasion and publicity, and the social conditions that let frauds flourish, revealing how showmanship and mass suggestion blur the boundaries between medicine, magic, entertainment, and politics.
- Published
- 1937
- Nationality
- Austrian
- Length
- Medium
- Pages
- 300-400
- Original Language
- German
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- Alternate Titles
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- Die Macht des Charlatans
- The Power of the Charlatan
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