David Wootton

David Wootton’s Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm since Hippocrates will be published by Oxford in June. He teaches early modern history at the University of York, where he is an Anniversary Professor.

In the LRB Archive:

• Devils Everywhere: The Terrors of the Night · 9 March 2006

  • At Day’s Close: A History of Nighttime by Roger Ekirch
  • Saving the Daylight: Why We Put the Clocks Forward by David Prerau

• The road is still open: Turpin Hero? · 3 February 2005

  • Dick Turpin: The Myth of the English Highwayman by James Sharpe

• Separating Gracie and Rosie: Two people, one body · 22 July 2004

  • One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal by Alice Domurat Dreger

• Never Knowingly Naked: 17th-century bodies · 15 April 2004

  • Common Bodies: Women, Touch and Power in 17th-Century England by Laura Gowing

• Lacanian Jesuit on Michel de Certeau · 4 October 2001

  • The Possession at Loudun by Michel de Certeau, translated by Michael Smith
  • The Certeau Reader edited by Graham Ward
  • Michel de Certeau: Cultural Theorist by Ian Buchanan

• Skipwith and Anktill: Tudor Microhistory · 10 August 2000

  • Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England by David Cressy
  • A House in Gross Disorder: Sex, Law, and the Second Earl of Castlehaven by Cynthia Herrup

• Brutish Babies on witchcraft · 11 November 1999

  • Shaman of Oberstdorf: Chonrad Stoeckhlin and the Phantoms of the Night by Wolfgang Behringer, translated by H.C.Erik Midelfort
  • Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe by Stuart Clark
  • Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England by Alan Macfarlane
  • The Bewitching of Anne Gunter: A Horrible and True Story of Football, Witchcraft, Murder and the King of England by James Sharpe

• Close Cozenage · 23 May 1996

  • Astrology and the 17th-Century Mind: William Lilly and the Language of the Stars by Ann Geneva

• A Perpetual Object of Hatred to All Theologians · 20 April 1995

  • The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes: Vols I-II edited by Noel Malcolm

• Disarming the English · 21 July 1994

  • To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right by Joyce Lee Malcolm

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