ANST - Period Scams?

[Gail P. Taylor]

I don't know about period scams, but it seems to me that the atmosphere of London in the late 1500 at least, when
anyone with access to a printing press was a publisher, was similar to that of today's internet traffic, though
quite a bit slower.  Inflammatory publications were often followed by any number of rebuttals.  Legends built
around folk heros and tall tales loosely based on town characters, took on a life of their own....

Isobel

Joe Wolf wrote:

> With all the talk recently of computer viruses and prayer hoaxes (all off-topic) I begin to wonder about such
> scams in the period we study.  Papal Indulgences aside,  (and I won't go into whether these are a scam or
> not! Too heated of a topic!) does anyone know of a medieval equivalent of a chainletter or get-rich-quick scam?
>
> Herr Manfred von Wolf
> Barony of the Stargate
>
> [Psssst... wanna buy a piece of the true cross?  How about one of Saint Michael's pinfeathers?]
>
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