MAGIC, TREASON AND PLOT SHOULD NEVER BE FORGOT

Francis Young. Magic as a Political Crime in Medieval and Early Modern England: A History of Sorcery and Treason. I.B.Tauris, 2018.

The purpose of this book is to establish magical thinking, and in particular magical treason, as an essential part of the history of the medieval and early modern periods and worthy of detailed study. 

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THE TRUMPET OF VENUS

Robin E. Cousins. Dr. Dee and the Dark Venus; The Enigma of the Tuba Veneris. Neptune Press, 2012.

Many people will have heard of the Tuba Veneris, ‘The Trumpet of Venus’, also called Libellus Veneri Nigro Sacer, ‘The Little Book Sacred to the Black Venus’ , because of its inclusion in bibliographies of Dr. John Dee, but few can have had the opportunity to read it.

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REMEMBERING DOCTOR DEE

Regular visitors to Magonia Review will have noticed that little panel on the right asking for donations to set up a permanent memorial to the Elizabethan magus, scholar, scientist, alchemist, mathematician, astrologer, and navigator, Dr John Dee, in Mortlake church, close to the house where he lived for much of his life and established his great library and alchemical laboratories.

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JOHN DEE - CONJURING AT COURT

Glyn Parry. The Arch-Conjurer of England: John Dee. Yale University Press, 2012.

Glyn Parry's new life of John Dee overturns many of the conventionally held views about this unique character. Living just across the road from the site of his house, laboratory and library in Mortlake my image of him was always as a white-bearded sage, living in a then-remote country village
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JOHN DEE: MAN, MYTH AND MORTLAKE

Nicholas Dakin. John Dee of Mortlake. Barnes and Mortlake Local History Society, 2011.

Readers of the old printed Magonia who have long memories may recall that at one time our address included the line ‘John Dee Cottage’, as the world headquarters of the giant Magonian media empire was situated adjacent to the site of the house and garden of the great seventeenth-century magus, astrologer, magician, cryptographer, spy, alchemist, mathematician, navigator and all-round genius John Dee.
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