Literatures of alchemy in medieval and early modern England. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Eoin Bentick.
• Authors: Bentick, Eoin
• Contents: 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
• Publisher Details: Cambridge Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 213 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 820.9360902; 540.112; Alchemy in literature; English literature -- History and criticism; Alchemy -- Philosophy; Alchemy -- History; Alchemy -- Early works to 1800; Alchemy; Electronic books; Early works; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781800107892; 1800107897; 9781800107885; 1800107889
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 03, 2022).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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