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

by Alec Ryrie

Book Overview

Drawing on previously unknown documents to reconstruct the extraordinary career of the consummate con-man Gregory Wisdom, Alec Ryrie takes us through the cut-throat business of early modern medicine, down to Tudor London's gangland of fraud and organized crime; from the world of Renaissance magi and Kabbalistic conjurers to street-corner wizards; and into the chaotic, exhilarating religious upheavals of the Reformation. On the way, we learn how Tudor...

• 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"