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  • Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: HarperPerennial; New edition edition (7 Feb 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007126581
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007126583
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 439,178 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'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.' Sir Roy Strong, Sunday Times '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 'Immensely readable!This book is more than a biography.' Independent on Sunday 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. The atmosphere is one heady with fear and rumour, twin emotions capable of triggering off virtually anything in an era when the movement of the heavens portended the death of kings and the Second Coming. This is the world of Nicholas Culpeper! 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


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3.0 out of 5 stars Alternative medicine? More like alternative biography, 2 Dec 2006
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Ostensibly this is a biography of Nicholas Culpeper, but I'm not sure this book knows what it wants to be. The author admits as much in the preface, mentioning the dearth of extant biographical material to work with which immediately negates what follows. As the story progresses one then begins to wonder whether this is a history of the English Civil War? or perhaps of the College of Physicians? or perhaps a biography of William Harvey? who features far more frequently than does Culpeper. The language was also a problem for me. The author frequently includes 17th-century prose into the body of the text instead of separating it out which makes for a turgid read with plenty of sub clauses and endless qualifications and meanderings. I'm in favour with quoting from primary sources, and even with the original spellings and grammar, but in moderation and not just for the sake of quoting - for some purpose. Apart from that it's still worth a look.
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