The heresy of Dr Dee : being edited from the most private documents of Dr John Dee, astrologer and consultant to Queen Elizabeth

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The heresy of Dr Dee : being edited from the most private documents of Dr John Dee, astrologer and consultant to Queen Elizabeth

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being edited from the most private documents of Dr John Dee, astrologer and consultant to Queen Elizabeth

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Phil Rickman

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• Rickman, Philip

Author

• Rickman, Philip

Subject

• Historical fiction
• Corruption -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603 -- Fiction
• Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603 -- Fiction

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• Fiction
• Historical fiction

Language

eng

Summary

1560: Rumour shrouds the death of the woman who stands between Lord Robert Dudley and marriage to the young Queen Elizabeth. Did Dudley's wife, Amy, die from an accidental fall, or was it murder? Even Dr John Dee, astrologer royal, and one of Dudley's oldest friends, is uncertain. Then a promise to the Queen sends him to the Welsh Border in pursuit of the Wigmore Shewstone, a crystal credited with supernatural properties. But devious politics, small-town corruption, twisted religion and a brooding superstition leave John Dee isolated in the land of his father

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fiction

Series statement

John Dee papers

Series volume

2