I am indebted to Beatrice Monti della Corte for her kindness and inspiration at Santa Maddalena, where the process of editing Divided Kingdom began.
Finally, my immense gratitude goes to Liz Calder, Gary Fisketjon, Katharine Norbury, Alexandra Pringle, Peter Straus, Mary Tomlinson, and Binky Urban. All seven helped significantly, each in their own unique way. This book would not be what it is without their invaluable encouragement and their undoubted brilliance and skill.
The following books proved especially usefuclass="underline" Freedom and Its Betrayaclass="underline" Six Enemies of Human Liberty by Isaiah Berlin (2002), Galen on Bloodletting by Peter Brain (1986), The Druid Animal Oracle by Philip and Stephanie Carr-Gomm (1996), A Generation Divided: German Children and the Berlin Wall by Thomas A. Davey (1987), Ley Lines by J. Havelock Fidler (1983), Lee Kuan Yew’s Singapore by T. J. S. George (1973), Medicine in the English Middle Ages by Dr Faye Getz (1998), Western Medical Thought from Antiquity to the Middle Ages edited by Mirko D. Grmek (1998), Handbook of Psychological Assessment by Gary Groth-Marnat (1997), Secret Teaching of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Cabbalistic, Hermetic and Rosicrucian Philosophy by Manly P. Hall (1999), Happiness through Tranquillity by Richard Hibler (1984), Nature of Man by Hippocrates, translated by W. H. S. Jones (1931), Saturn and Melancholy by Raymond Klibansky (1964), S,M,L,XL by Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau (1995), The Celtic Book of the Dead by Caitlin Matthews (1992), Narratives of Guilt and Compliance by Barbara Muller (1999), Paracelsus — An Introduction to Philosophical Medicine by Walter Pagel (1958), Iconology — A Collection of Emblematic Figures by George Richardson (1778), Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine by Nancy Siraisi (1990), The Hippocratic Tradition by W. D. Smith (1979), Scientific Tourist through England by Thomas Walford (1818), The Optick Glass of Humours by T. Walkington, Master of Artes (1631), The Ley Hunter’s Manual by Alfred Watkins (1983), and Amnesty International Report (Nov/Dec 1978).
A Note on the Author
RUPERT THOMSON is the author of eight highly acclaimed novels, of which Air and Fire and The Insult were shortlisted for the Writer’s Guild Fiction Prize and the Guardian Fiction Prize respectively. His most recent novel, Death of a Murderer, was shortlisted for the 2008 Costa Novel Award. His memoir This Party’s Got to Stop was published in 2010.