Tara Nummedal is Associate Professor of History at Brown University and author of Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire.

Cast of Characters
A Note on Names
Introduction. A Witch's Chair?
Chapter 1. The Shadow of Gotha
Chapter 2. The Road to Wolfenbüttel
Chapter 3. Courting Julius and Hedwig
Chapter 4. The Lion's Blood
Chapter 5. A New Virgin Mary
Chapter 6. Unraveling
Chapter 7. Toad Poison and Other Fictions
Conclusion. Afterlives
Chronology of Events
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

Tara Nummedal is John Nickoll Provost's Professor of History at Brown University and author of Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire.