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Europe's physician: The various life of Sir Theodore de Mayerne

Door Hugh Trevor-Roper

Categorie
Gezondheidszorg & Geneeskunde
Boeknummer
#357025-ZE1
Titel
Europe's physician: The various life of Sir Theodore de Mayerne
Auteur
Trevor-Roper, Hugh
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Yale University Press
Jaar van uitgave
2006
ISBN10
0300112637
ISBN13
9780300112634
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original gilt lettered cloth, dust jacket, illustrations in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Among the papers of Hugh Trevor-Roper, who died in 2003, was a manuscript to which he had repeatedly turned for more than thirty years, but never published. Attracted by the diverse life and vivid personality of Sir Theodore de Mayerne (1573–1655), the most famous physician in Europe of his time, Trevor-Roper pursued him across national and intellectual frontiers to uncover the details of his extraordinary life.
Exploring an array of English and European sources, Trevor-Roper reveals the story of the pioneering Swiss Huguenot doctor who mixed medicine with diplomacy, with political intrigue, with secret intelligence, and with artistic interests at the courts first of Henry IV of France and then of James I and Charles I of England. A true “renaissance man,” Mayerne's inte... (Lees verder)rests were broad, and due to considerable conspiratorial talent, he became a participant in bluff and intrigue at the highest levels.
The most ambitious and perhaps the most original of all Trevor-Roper's books, written in his luminous prose, this is a major work of political and intellectual history that presents a whole period in a fresh and vivid light.
Pagina's
438
Conditie
Goed — Name in felt pen on first endpaper, stickers on rear of dust jacket.
Prijs
€ 12,50

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