The Sorcerer's Tale Faith and Fraud in Tudor England

In The Sorcerer's Tale, Alec Ryrie uses previously unknown documents to reconstruct the extraordinary life and world of Gregory Wisdom, physician, magician, and consummate con-man at work in sixteenth-century London. The journey takes us through the cut-throat business of early modern medicine, down to Tudor London's gangland of fraud and organized crime; from the world of Renaissance magi and Kabbalistic conjurers to street-corner wizards; and into thechaotic, exhilarating religious upheavals of the Reformation.