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John Bossy: Simon Forman, 22 February 2001
The Notorious Astrological Physician of London: Works and Days of Simon Forman
by Barbara HowardTraister.
Chicago, 260 pp., £19, February 2001,0 226 81140 9 Show More
by Barbara HowardTraister.
Chicago, 260 pp., £19, February 2001,
Dr Simon Forman: A Most Notorious Physician
by Judith Cook.
Chatto, 228 pp., £18.99, January 2001,0 7011 6899 4 Show More
by Judith Cook.
Chatto, 228 pp., £18.99, January 2001,
“... like what Burckhardt claimed for Renaissance Italy. Rowse’s enthusiasms do not cut much ice with Barbara HowardTraister, a professor of English tempted by the New Historicism. She has tried to embrace the whole corpus of Forman’s writings, and says that his manuscripts are more her subject than he is; she wants to ... ”
