🎧 Sorcery and the Tudor Court
Archive of Dan Snow's History Hit 🎧 • 35m
It's a little known fact that the Tudor monarchs and their councillors used - and feared - magic and the occult. At this time of great religious change and great religious faith, belief in magic was practically orthodox and certainly widespread.
In today’s edition for Hallowe'en, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb delves into Tudor sorcery with Dr. Francis Young who believes it should come as no surprise that magic and politics were so closely linked - for both are concerned with the exercise of power.
The Senior Producer was Elena Guthrie. It was edited and produced by Rob Weinberg.
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