https://deceit.blog/tag/historical-method Essays on what manipulation costs and why it lands. Tagged "historical-method". en Sat, 31 Oct 2026 02:10:06 GMT 60 https://deceit.blog/essay/two-thousand-years-of-forgery https://deceit.blog/essay/two-thousand-years-of-forgery Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. In 1389 a bishop wrote to the pope about a cloth. Pierre d'Arcis had a burial shroud on display in his diocese at Lirey. Pilgrims were paying to see it. He told Clement VII that the cloth was a painting, that it had been "cunningly painted," and that the artist who made it had confessed. He named th…