Eoin Bentick

Literatures of Alchemy in Medieval and Early Modern England

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the myriad ways in which alchemy was conceptualised by adepts and sceptics alike, from those with recourse to a fully functioning laboratory to those who did not know their pelican from their athanor!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781843846444
• ISBN-10: 1843846446
• Artikelnr.: 64103782

Autorenporträt

Eoin Bentick

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Editorial Practice List of
Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. Ignotum Per Ignocius: Literatures of
Alchemical Impotence Sinners, Tricksters and Fools: Conceptions of
Alchemists in the Fourteenth Century Playing with Obscurity: Chaucer's
Manipulation of the Tabula chemica and the Liber de secretis naturae
Impotent Alchemical 'Pryvetee' Chapter 2. Alchemical Theories of Social
Reform Roger Bacon's Holistic Alchemy John Gower's Moral Alchemy Thomas
Norton's Alchemical King Chapter 3. British Library, MS Harley 2407
Recipe-Poems Gnomic Poems Theoretical Poems Conceit-Poems Chapter 4.
Alchemical Hermeneutics Augustine and Medieval Hermeneutics Alchemical
Afterlives He that Hath Ears to Hear Conclusion Bibliography