Medieval document exposed as eighteenth-century forgery

A document held in Göttingen University’s Faculty of Humanities has been revealed to be an eighteenth-century forgery. While the document claims to date to 1266, it references a church in Pisa that was not constructed until much later. This revelation comes from research conducted by Dr. Boris Gübele, a historian at the University of Göttingen, in collaboration with Italian researchers. The investigation began as part of preparations for exhibits at Forum Wissen, the University of Göttingen’s knowledge museum. The document stood out because it was written in Italian rather than Latin, an unusual feature for medieval manuscripts in the Göttingen collection. It describes a married couple from Pisa who pledged their son to a religious order supposedly associated with a particular church in the city. However, the church in question…

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