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

by Alec Ryrie

Book Overview

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"