The Sorcerer's Tale: Faith and Fraud in Tudor England

by Alec Ryrie

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An earl's son, plotting murder by witchcraft; conjuring spirits to find buried treasure; a stolen coat embroidered with pure silver; crooked gaming-houses and brothels; a terrifying new disease, and the self-trained surgeon who claims he can treat it. This is the world of Gregory Wisdom, a physician, magician, and consummate con-man at work in sixteenth-century London. In this book, Alec Ryrie uses previously unknown documents to reconstruct this...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0199229961

ISBN13:9780199229963

Release Date:September 2008

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:224 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 7.8" x 5.1"

Related Subjects

16th Century Christian Books & Bibles Christianity Church History Criminology England Europe History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Religion

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