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This volume presents, for the first time, a critical edition of the works of the early modern English physician John Cotta. No mere country doctor, Cotta spoke out eloquently and courageously against what he saw as abuses in medicine and injustices in the prosecution of witchcraft. Read by important thinkers such as Robert Burton in England, and by colonial administrators in New England, Cotta helped shape two of the most important debates of his time. Included are the full texts of Cotta’s Short Discovery and The Trial of Witchcraft, both books painstakingly edited and annotated. Also included is a detailed introduction dealing with Cotta’s medical and religious contexts, his extensive learning and much more.
Price: $227.00
Pages: 451
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
11 October 2018
ISBN: 9789004367166
Format: Hardcover
“An exemplary demonstration of scholarly editorship. […] Overall, this volume constitutes a major contribution to our understanding of John Cotta and, indeed, of what sort of learning an educated medical practitioner of the period might draw upon in discussing the role of the physician in contemporary society.”
James Sharpe, University of York. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 1 (Spring 2020), pp. 260–261.
“The Major Works of John Cotta is a lucid, intelligent, and rather lovely book.”
Darren Oldridge, University of Worcester. In: Isis, Vol. 111, No 1 (March 2020), pp. 167–169.
James Sharpe, University of York. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 1 (Spring 2020), pp. 260–261.
“The Major Works of John Cotta is a lucid, intelligent, and rather lovely book.”
Darren Oldridge, University of Worcester. In: Isis, Vol. 111, No 1 (March 2020), pp. 167–169.
Todd H. J. Pettigrew, PhD (1998) University of Waterloo, is Associate Professor of English and Drama at Cape Breton University. He has pubished numerous articles on renaissance literature and culture and is the author of Shakespeare and the Practice of Physic (University of Delaware Press, 2007).
Stephanie M. Pettigrew is a doctoral candidate in History at the University of New Brunswick.
Jacques A. Bailly, PhD (1997) is Associate Professor of Classics at The University of Vermont. He is the author of The Socratic Theages: A Commentary (Olms Verlag, 2004).