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John Bossy

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

Selected bibliography

  • Under the Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Story (2001)
  • Peace in the Post-Reformation (1998)
  • Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair (1991)
  • Christianity in the West, 1400-1700 (1985)
  • The English Catholic Community, 1570-1850 (1975)

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subscriber-only content Trust the Coroner · 14 December 2006

subscriber-only content Not the man for it · 20 April 2006

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

subscriber-only content A pig shall come forth · 31 March 2005

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

subscriber-only content Take a tinderbox and go steady with your canoe · 20 May 2004

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

subscriber-only content The Skull from Outer Space · 20 February 2003

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

subscriber-only content Remember Me · 24 May 2001

subscriber-only content Haleking · 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

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive Using the Heavens · 1 June 2000

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

 not available in archive They were less depressed in the Middle Ages · 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

 not available in archive From Notre Dame to Cluny via a Beehive Hut · 2 July 1998

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

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