John Bossy

John Bossy is an emeritus professor of history at York University. His books include Under the Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Story.

In the LRB Archive:

• Trust the Coroner: why Christopher Marlowe was probably not a spy · 14 December 2006

  • Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy by Park Honan

• Not the man for it: The Death of Girolamo Savonarola · 20 April 2006

  • Scourge and Fire: Savonarola and Renaissance Italy by Lauro Martines
  • The Burning of the Vanities: Savonarola and the Borgia Pope by Desmond Seward

• A pig shall come forth: Etruscan haruspicy · 31 March 2005

  • The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery by Ingrid Rowland

• Take a tinderbox and go steady with your canoe: Jesuits · 20 May 2004

  • The Jesuits: Missions, Myths and Histories by Jonathan Wright

• The Skull from Outer Space: ‘The Ambassadors’ · 20 February 2003

  • The Ambassadors’ Secret: Holbein and the World of the Renaissance by John North

• Remember Me on Hamlet · 24 May 2001

  • Hamlet in Purgatory by Stephen Greenblatt

• Haleking on Simon Forman · 22 February 2001

  • The Notorious Astrological Physician of London: Works and Days of Simon Forman by Barbara Howard Traister
  • Dr Simon Forman: A Most Notorious Physician by Judith Cook

• Using the Heavens: Renaissance Astrology · 1 June 2000

  • Cardano’s Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer by Anthony Grafton

• They were less depressed in the Middle Ages on suicide · 11 November 1999

  • Marx on Suicide edited by Eric Plaut and Kevin Anderson, translated by Gabrielle Edgcomb
  • Suicide in the Middle Ages, Vol I: The Violent Against Themselves by Alexander Murray
  • A History of Suicide: Voluntary Death in Western Culture by Georges Minois, translated by Lydia Cochrane

• From Notre Dame to Cluny, via a Beehive Hut: Abelard’s Final Fling · 2 July 1998

  • Abelard: A Medieval Life by M.T. Clanchy

• A Tall Stranger in Hoxton · 3 July 1997

  • The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 by Antonia Fraser

• Zigzags · 4 April 1996

  • The New Oxford History of England. Vol. II: The Later Tudors by Penry Williams

• Tush Ye Shall Not Die · 23 February 1995

  • William Tyndale: A Biography by David Daniell
  • The Renaissance Bible: Scholarship, Sacrifice and Subjectivity by Debora Kuller Shuger

• Application for Funding · 23 April 1992

  • Francis Bacon, the State, and the Reform of Natural Philosophy by Julian Martin

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