Description: The prehistory of modern passport and identification technologies: the documents, seals, and stamps, that could document and transform their owner's identity.
Brief description: Valentin Groebner is professor of medieval and Renaissance history at the University of Lucerne. He is the author of Liquid Assets, Dangerous Gifts and Who Are You? Identification, Deception, and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe.
Review Quotes: "This book is a page turner, exciting and dazzling, an inspiration for further work on the workings of identity."-- "Journal of Modern History"