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
extraordinary man's career. The journey 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 England's dignified
public face and its rapacious underworld were intimately connected
to each other. Gregory Wisdom's career is an object lesson in how
to conjure up wealth and respectability from nothing in a turbulent
age. And it provides a unique glimpse into a world intoxicated with
new ideas, where it was impossible to know quite what to believe -
or who to trust.
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