Alchemical Poetry 1575 1700
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Alchemical Poetry 1575 1700
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Author : Robert M. Schuler
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-02-11
Alchemical Poetry 1575 1700 written by Robert M. Schuler and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-11 with Poetry categories.
Of interest to interdisciplinary historians as well as those in various other fields, this book presents the first publication of 14 poems ranging from 12 to 3,000 lines. The poems are printed in the chronological order of their composition, from Elizabethan to Augustan times, but nine of them are verse translations of works from earlier periods in the development of alchemy. Each has a textual and historical introduction and explanatory note by the Editor. Renaissance alchemy is acknowledged as an important element in the histories of early modern science and medicine. This book emphasises these poems’ expression of and shaping influence on religious, social and political values and institutions of their time too and is a useful reference work with much to offer for cultural studies and literary studies as well as science and history.
Verse And Transmutation
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Author : Anke Timmermann
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2013-09-25
Verse And Transmutation written by Anke Timmermann and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-25 with History categories.
Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry identifies and investigates a corpus of twenty-one anonymous Middle English recipes for the philosophers’ stone through critical editions and studies on their histories in early modern manuscripts, literature and libraries.
Alchemy And Exemplary Poetry In Middle English Literature
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Author : Curtis Runstedler
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-03-27
Alchemy And Exemplary Poetry In Middle English Literature written by Curtis Runstedler and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book explores the different functions and metaphorical concepts of alchemy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English poetry and bridges them together with the exempla tradition in late medieval English literature. Such poetic narratives function as exemplary models which directly address the ambiguity of medieval English alchemical practice. This book examines the foundation of this relationship between alchemical narrative and exemplum in the poetry of Gower and Chaucer in the fourteenth century before exploring its diffusion in lesser-known anonymous poems and recipes in the fifteenth century, namely alchemical dialogues between Morienus and Merlin, Albertus Magnus and the Queen of Elves, and an alchemical version of John Lydgate’s poem The Churl and the Bird. It investigates how this exemplarity can be read as inherent to understanding poetic narratives containing alchemy, as well as enabling the reader to reassess the understanding and expectations of science and narrative within medieval English poetry.
Routledge Library Editions Alchemy
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Author : Various Authors
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-03-05
Routledge Library Editions Alchemy written by Various Authors and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-05 with Philosophy categories.
Reissuing seminal works originally published between 1916 and 1995, Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy (7 volume set) offers a selection of scholarship covering various facets of alchemical traditions. Some texts examine alchemy itself while some offer insight into the motives for alchemical research and others outlay portraits of people such as Giordano Bruno and John Dee.
Textual Healing
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Author : Elizabeth Lane Furdell
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2005
Textual Healing written by Elizabeth Lane Furdell and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
This collection of twelve essays explores various aspects in the development of medicine from the Middle Ages to 1700 with a particular emphasis on revisiting original texts for new insights in the culture of healing.
Literatures Of Alchemy In Medieval And Early Modern England
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Author : Eoin Bentick
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2022-11-15
Literatures Of Alchemy In Medieval And Early Modern England written by Eoin Bentick and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-15 with categories.
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!
The Virgin Mary As Alchemical And Lullian Reference In Donne
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Author : Roberta Albrecht
language : en
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Release Date : 2005
The Virgin Mary As Alchemical And Lullian Reference In Donne written by Roberta Albrecht and has been published by Susquehanna University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Literary Criticism categories.
"This study will also appeal to New Historicists and those interested in alchemy, emblems, or theology."--Jacket.
Giovanni Aurelio Augurello 1441 1524 And Renaissance Alchemy
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Author : Matteo Soranzo
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-12-09
Giovanni Aurelio Augurello 1441 1524 And Renaissance Alchemy written by Matteo Soranzo and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-09 with Poetry categories.
The first in-depth study of the life and works of Augurello, Italian alchemist, poet and art connoisseur from the time of Giorgione.
The Experimental Fire
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Author : Jennifer M. Rampling
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2023-03-08
The Experimental Fire written by Jennifer M. Rampling and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-08 with History categories.
A 400-year history of the development of alchemy in England that brings to light the evolution of the practice. In medieval and early modern Europe, the practice of alchemy promised extraordinary physical transformations. Who would not be amazed to see base metals turned into silver and gold, hard iron into soft water, and deadly poison into elixirs that could heal the human body? To defend such claims, alchemists turned to the past, scouring ancient books for evidence of a lost alchemical heritage and seeking to translate their secret language and obscure imagery into replicable, practical effects. Tracing the development of alchemy in England over four hundred years, from the beginning of the fourteenth century to the end of the seventeenth, Jennifer M. Rampling illuminates the role of alchemical reading and experimental practice in the broader context of national and scientific history. Using new manuscript sources, she shows how practitioners like George Ripley, John Dee, and Edward Kelley, as well as many previously unknown alchemists, devised new practical approaches to alchemy while seeking the support of English monarchs. By reconstructing their alchemical ideas, practices, and disputes, Rampling reveals how English alchemy was continually reinvented over the space of four centuries, resulting in changes to the science itself. In so doing, The Experimental Fire bridges the intellectual history of chemistry and the wider worlds of early modern patronage, medicine, and science.
William Percy S Mahomet And His Heaven
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Author : Matthew Dimmock
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-05-15
William Percy S Mahomet And His Heaven written by Matthew Dimmock and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-15 with History categories.
William Percy's Mahomet and His Heaven (1601) is extraordinary. Not only is it the only early modern play purportedly based upon the Qur'an, but it is also the first to place the Prophet Muhammad on the stage. While there existed a remarkable range of texts concerning Islamic characters and themes in Renaissance England, from chronicles and pamphlets to popular drama, the publication of this edition of Mahomet and His Heaven represents a major step forward in the study of Islam on the early modern stage. Roughly contemporary with Shakespeare's Othello, William Percy makes the remarkable and potentially highly provocative gesture of locating the Prophet as its central character, presiding over an apocalyptic drought to chastise the sins of mankind. The play takes place in around the mosques of 'Medina' and the action mirrors early Christian 'translations' of the Qur'an, the Islamic holy text that was rarely available in England at the time. Furthermore, the play provides a fascinating insight into the way that Islamic characters were portrayed on the early modern stage, containing as it does remarkably detailed stage directions, stipulating for example that the Prophet wears 'all greene and greene his Turban' and that his Angels are 'rainbow powdered'. Such details offer an entirely new perspective upon this aspect of early modern stagecraft. Matthew Dimmock presents here the play in its entirety, with a critical introduction which introduces some of its key themes, and places it in a textual and social context. A section of detailed explanatory scholarly notes follow the play, containing a full translation of the short Latin sections and references to the many political and literary parallels. This book should be required reading for historians, literary scholars and students dealing with notions of race, religion, magic, astrology and stagecraft in early modern England.