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!
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!
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
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
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