Europe's Physician: The Various Life of Sir Theodore de MayerneYale University Press, 1 janv. 2006 - 438 pages A brilliant, unknown work by the great historian Hugh Trevor-Roper Among the papers of Hugh Trevor-Roper, who died in 2003, was a manuscript to which he had repeatedly turned for more than thirty years, but never published. Attracted by the diverse life and vivid personality of Sir Theodore de Mayerne (1573-1655), the most famous physician in Europe of his time, Trevor-Roper pursued him across national and intellectual frontiers to uncover the details of his extraordinary life. Exploring an array of English and European sources, Trevor-Roper reveals the story of the pioneering Swiss Huguenot doctor who mixed medicine with diplomacy, with political intrigue, with secret intelligence, and with artistic interests at the courts first of Henry IV of France and then of James I and Charles I of England. A true "renaissance man," Mayerne's interests were broad, and due to considerable conspiratorial talent, he became a participant in bluff and intrigue at the highest levels. The most ambitious and perhaps the most original of all Trevor-Roper's books, written in his luminous prose, this is a major work of political and intellectual history that presents a whole period in a fresh and vivid light. |
Table des matières
Mayerne and his World | 1 |
Early Years 15731598 | 14 |
Paris 15981601 | 30 |
The Grand Tour 15991601 | 44 |
The Chemical Challenge 16011605 | 60 |
The German Dimension 16051606 | 84 |
Interlude in England 1606 | 101 |
8 Protestants and Catholics 16001610 | 117 |
Protector of Switzerland 1622 | 255 |
The Last Years of King James 16231625 | 269 |
Charles I and the Protestant Debacle 16251630 | 286 |
A New Regime 16301631 | 303 |
Planting a Dynasty 16301639 | 315 |
Entrepreneur and Virtuoso | 331 |
The Physician and his Late Years 16401655 | 349 |
The Name de Mayerne | 369 |
The Move to England 16101611 | 140 |
First Years in England 16111613 | 162 |
Sir Thomas Overbury 16121615 | 178 |
Secret Agent of King James 16141615 | 190 |
Medical Reformer 16151616 | 206 |
The Protestant Revolution 16161622 | 221 |
Baron dAubonne 16201621 | 240 |
Portraits of Mayerne | 370 |
Mayernes Papers | 372 |
Further Reading | 375 |
Bibliographical Abbreviations | 377 |
Notes | 379 |
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