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John Bossy: Simon Forman, 22 February 2001
The Notorious Astrological Physician of London: Works and Days of Simon Forman
by Barbara Howard Traister.
Chicago, 260 pp., £19, February 2001,0 226 81140 9 Show More
by Barbara Howard Traister.
Chicago, 260 pp., £19, February 2001,
Dr Simon Forman: A Most Notorious Physician
by Judith Cook.
Chatto, 228 pp., £18.99, January 2001,0 7011 6899 4 Show More
by Judith Cook.
Chatto, 228 pp., £18.99, January 2001,
“... form of prayer, invented in early medieval monasteries and much cultivated by the laity, like King Richard III, in the 15th century. Forman’s practice of this old-fashioned kind of prayer is the best guide we have to the kind of Christian he was. Not, by the exacting standards of the seminary priests of his time, any kind of Catholic, or he wouldn’t have ... ”