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Bycroft, Michael (2020) Review of Medicine, religion, and magic in Early Stuart England by Hadass, Ofer. The English Historical Review, 135 (573). pp. 484-485. ISSN 0013-8266
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceaa057
Abstract
The largest collection of early modern English medical records is held in sixty volumes in the Ashmole Collection at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. These volumes contain detailed records of 70,000 encounters between a doctor, Richard Napier (1559–1634), and his patients. Most of these records contain astrological charts, each of which is a trellis-like pattern of straight lines interwoven with symbols representing the sun, the moon and the planets. Napier’s casebooks are an invaluable source, not only for historians of medicine but also for intellectual historians and for historians of gender, personhood and the body. They are not easy to interpret, however. They are not only vast and esoteric but also eclectic, drawing on a range of traditions that include medieval scholasticism,...
Item Type: | Book Review | ||||||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Medicine -- England -- History -- 17th century, Medical astrology -- England -- History -- 17th century, Magic -- England -- History -- 17th century, Theology -- England -- History - 7th century, Magic in history | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | The English Historical Review | ||||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0013-8266 | ||||||||
Book Title: | Medicine, religion, and magic in Early Stuart England | ||||||||
Official Date: | 30 May 2020 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 135 | ||||||||
Number: | 573 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 484-485 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/ehr/ceaa057 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in The English Historical Review following peer review. The version of record Michael Bycroft, Medicine, Religion, and Magic in Early Stuart England: Richard Napier’s Medical Practice, by Ofer Hadass, The English Historical Review, , ceaa057, is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceaa057 | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 5 August 2020 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 30 May 2022 |
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