'Nostradamus, Prophet of Provence' is a uniquely comprehensive
critical biography of the famous French seer by Peter Lemesurier,
widely regarded as the world's leading English-language Nostradamus
specialist. Stretching from the prophet's youth to his death, it
takes the form of a historical novel comprising a series of
imaginative cameos, with the author acting as a kind of 'Devil's
Advocate' against whom Nostradamus himself constantly argues,
assuming him to be some kind of visionary 'demon'. The book
consequently contains many little-known insights into the seer's
aims, activities and working methods, and shows him struggling with
the need to establish himself as a 'doctor', 'astrologer' and
'prophet' amid the swirling challenges of plague, famine, war,
death, professional jealousies, religious threats and growing
ill-health, whilst at the same time attending to his
responsibilities as a husband and father and fending off a wife who
has a definite will of her own. Only at the moment of her death
does he finally realise (too late) his lifetime ambition of
actually being able to see into the future... The book contains
translations of many original documents, and concludes with a full
bibliography.
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