The Rise Of Alchemy In Fourteenth Century England
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The Rise Of Alchemy In Fourteenth Century England
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Author : Jonathan Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2012-03-08
The Rise Of Alchemy In Fourteenth Century England written by Jonathan Hughes and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-08 with History categories.
The first book to explore the importance of alchemy and its links to the occult in the period between 1320 and 1400. Alchemists didn't just try to turn metals into gold: they studied planetary influences on metals and people, refined plants and minerals in the search for medicines. This book illustrates how this branch of thought became more popular as the practical and theoretical knowledge of alchemists spread throughout England.
The Rise Of Alchemy In Fourteenth Century England
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language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2012-01-19
The Rise Of Alchemy In Fourteenth Century England written by and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-19 with History categories.
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.
Arthurian Literature Xxxv
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Author : Elizabeth Archibald
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2020
Arthurian Literature Xxxv written by Elizabeth Archibald and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Literary Criticism categories.
The continued influence and significance of the legend of Arthur are demonstrated by the articles collected in this volume.
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.
Alchemy Paracelsianism And Shakespeare S The Winter S Tale
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Author : Martina Zamparo
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-10-05
Alchemy Paracelsianism And Shakespeare S The Winter S Tale written by Martina Zamparo and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book explores the role of alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Hermetic philosophy in one of Shakespeare’s last plays, The Winter’s Tale. A perusal of the vast literary and iconographic repertory of Renaissance alchemy reveals that this late play is imbued with several topoi, myths, and emblematic symbols coming from coeval alchemical, Paracelsian, and Hermetic sources. It also discusses the alchemical significance of water and time in the play’s circular and regenerative pattern and the healing role of women. All the major symbols of alchemy are present in Shakespeare’s play: the intertwined serpents of the caduceus, the chemical wedding, the filius philosophorum, and the so-called rex chymicus. This book also provides an in-depth survey of late Renaissance alchemy, Paracelsian medicine, and Hermetic culture in the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages. Importantly, it contends that The Winter’s Tale, in symbolically retracing the healing pattern of the rota alchemica and in emphasising the Hermetic principles of unity and concord, glorifies King James’s conciliatory attitude.
The Alchemical Harry Potter
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Author : Anne J. Mamary
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2020-12-22
The Alchemical Harry Potter written by Anne J. Mamary and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
When Harry Potter first boards the Hogwarts Express, he journeys to a world which Rowling says has alchemy as its "internal logic." The Philosopher's Stone, known for its power to transform base metals into gold and to give immortality to its maker, is the subject of the conflict between Harry and Voldemort in the first book of the series. But alchemy is not about money or eternal life, it is much more about the transformations of desire, of power and of people--through love. Harry's equally remarkable and ordinary power to love leads to his desire to find but not use the Philosopher's Stone at the start of the series and his wish to end the destructive power of the Elder Wand at the end. This collection of essays on alchemical symbolism and transformations in Rowling's series demonstrates how Harry's work with magical objects, people, and creatures transfigure desire, power, and identity. As Harry's leaden existence on Privet Drive is transformed in the company of his friends and teachers, the Harry Potter novels have transformed millions of readers, inspiring us to find the gold in our ordinary lives.
English Renaissance Manuscript Culture
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Author : Steven W. May
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023-08-14
English Renaissance Manuscript Culture written by Steven W. May and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: The Paper Revolution traces the development of a new type of scribal culture in England that emerged early in the fourteenth century. The main medieval writing surfaces of parchment and wax tablets were augmented by a writing medium that was both lasting and cheap enough to be expendable. Writing was transformed from a near monopoly of professional scribes employed by the upper class to a practice ordinary citizens could afford. Personal correspondence, business records, notebooks on all sorts of subjects, creative writing, and much more flourished at social levels where they had previously been excluded by the high cost of parchment. Steven W. May places literary manuscripts and in particular poetic anthologies in this larger scribal context, showing how its innovative features affected both authorship and readership. As this amateur scribal culture developed, the medieval professional culture expanded as well. Classes of documents formerly restricted to parchment often shifted over to paper, while entirely new classes of documents were added to the records of church and state as these institutions took advantage of relatively inexpensive paper. Paper stimulated original composition by making it possible to draft, revise, and rewrite works in this new, affordable medium. Amateur scribes were soon producing an enormous volume of manuscript works of all kinds--works they could afford to circulate in multiple copies. England's ever-increasing literate population developed an informal network that transmitted all kinds of texts from single sheets to book-length documents efficiently throughout the kingdom. The operation of restrictive coteries had little if any role in the mass circulation of manuscripts through this network. However, paper was cheap enough that manuscripts could also be readily disposed of (unlike expensive parchment). More than 90% of the output from this scribal tradition has been lost, a fact that tends to distort our understanding and interpretation of what has survived. May illustrates these conclusions with close analysis of representative manuscripts.
Alchemy And Verse In Late Medieval England
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Author : Eoin Bentick
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Alchemy And Verse In Late Medieval England written by Eoin Bentick and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
Social England
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Author : Henry Duff Traill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
Social England written by Henry Duff Traill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with Great Britain categories.