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'This is a London story, one of grubby back streets, of mass hysteria, of religious bigotry, of a quarter of a million people living out the world of Apocalypse Now. Never before have I felt the kinship between the London of the English Civil War and revolutionary Paris so strongly... This is a wonderful book - a delight to read, fast-moving, informed and passionate in its advocacy. It is a vivid and compelling portrait of the world turned upside down, of people-power run riot, of a great city dissolving into chaos, a place where the irrational had become the norm as ordinary people responded to Lilly and Culpeper's prophecies and prognostications.' Roy Strong, Sunday Times'Taking medicine as a lens on English society at a critical fulcrum between the medieval and the modern, it reveals some of the muddled half- steps by which political thought, science and the understanding of the human body have stumbled towards their modern condition. The research is superb -- rich, detailed, and original -- and the lives Benjamin Woolley describes are as passionate as the great events of the English Civil War around which they orbit.' Adam Nicolson'A fascinating, brilliant account of the Renaissance world picture...' Kathryn Hughes, New Statesman'Woolley handsomely captures a society torn between rationality and romance, cynicism and hero worship'. New Scientist'An informative and enlightening book... immensely enjoyable, its narrative exciting and inexorable. I have not read as stimulating a study of the Elizabethan period since Charles Nicholl's book on Marlowe, The Reckoning'. Thomas Wright, Daily Telegraph
Born in Ockley, Surrey, in 1616, Nicolas Culpeper seemed destined for a life defying authority. He rebelled at home as a child, dropped out of Cambridge as a student, and fell out with the apothecary to whom he was apprenticed in London. As a member of the London militia sent to oppose the forces of King Charles I, he was shot at Newbury but managed to survive. Armed with knowledge of the properties of plants and herbs such as angelica, goosewort, pilewort, borage, bryony, and tansy, Culpeper went on to outrage the College of Physicians by publishing a book which made public many of their remedies hitherto considered secret. Benjamin Woolley has researched his subject throroughly to provide a fascinating story of a truculent man, and of a turbulent period in English history, while emphasising the vital importance of herbalism amongst citizens constantly under threat from plague and other diseases. An engaging biography. (Kirkus UK)
Kathryn Hughes, New Statesman
'A fascinating, brilliant account of the Renaissance world picture…'
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'This is a London story, one of grubby back streets, of mass hysteria, of religious bigotry, of a quarter of a million people living out the world of Apocalypse Now. Never before have I felt the kinship between the London of the English Civil War and revolutionary Paris so strongly... This is a wonderful book - a delight to read, fast-moving, informed and passionate in its advocacy. It is a vivid and compelling portrait of the world turned upside down, of people-power run riot, of a great city dissolving into chaos, a place where the irrational had become the norm as ordinary people responded to Lilly and Culpeper's prophecies and prognostications.' Roy Strong, Sunday Times'Taking medicine as a lens on English society at a critical fulcrum between the medieval and the modern, it reveals some of the muddled half- steps by which political thought, science and the understanding of the human body have stumbled towards their modern condition. The research is superb -- rich, detailed, and original -- and the lives Benjamin Woolley describes are as passionate as the great events of the English Civil War around which they orbit.' Adam Nicolson'A fascinating, brilliant account of the Renaissance world picture...' Kathryn Hughes, New Statesman'Woolley handsomely captures a society torn between rationality and romance, cynicism and hero worship'. New Scientist'An informative and enlightening book... immensely enjoyable, its narrative exciting and inexorable. I have not read as stimulating a study of the Elizabethan period since Charles Nicholl's book on Marlowe, The Reckoning'. Thomas Wright, Daily Telegraph
Born in Ockley, Surrey, in 1616, Nicolas Culpeper seemed destined for a life defying authority. He rebelled at home as a child, dropped out of Cambridge as a student, and fell out with the apothecary to whom he was apprenticed in London. As a member of the London militia sent to oppose the forces of King Charles I, he was shot at Newbury but managed to survive. Armed with knowledge of the properties of plants and herbs such as angelica, goosewort, pilewort, borage, bryony, and tansy, Culpeper went on to outrage the College of Physicians by publishing a book which made public many of their remedies hitherto considered secret. Benjamin Woolley has researched his subject throroughly to provide a fascinating story of a truculent man, and of a turbulent period in English history, while emphasising the vital importance of herbalism amongst citizens constantly under threat from plague and other diseases. An engaging biography. (Kirkus UK)
Kathryn Hughes, New Statesman
'A fascinating, brilliant account of the Renaissance world picture…'
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