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The sorcerer's tale
faith and fraud in Tudor England
By Ryrie, Alec
- ISBN
- 978-0-19922-996-3
- Publisher
- Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2008.
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Reviewed on September 15, 2008
When he came across a foolish young 16th-century aristocrat's confession of attempting to murder his wife and father by sorcery, Ryrie (church history, Durham Univ.; Britain Reformed: Religion, Politics and Society in Britain 1485-1603) discovered a fascinating way to introduce readers to the deeply entangled worlds of Tudor-era magic, medicine, and religion. The young man had himself been conned, and it is the story of the con man, a would-be physician an...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
