A Poisonous Legacy: The Hidden Story of an Early Experimental Practice

Neil Tarrant

doi:10.18352/inc18338

A Poisonous Legacy

The Hidden Story of an Early Experimental Practice

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Neil Tarrant University of Leeds

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https://doi.org/10.18352/inc18338

Keywords:

poison trials, Early modern Europe, Clement VII

Abstract

Review of Alisha Rankin, The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2021), pp.329.

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2024-03-29

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Tarrant, N. (2024) “A Poisonous Legacy: The Hidden Story of an Early Experimental Practice”, Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani, 37(2), pp. 1–2. doi: 10.18352/inc18338.

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Vol. 37 No. 2 (2022)

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Reviews

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