Verse and transmutation a corpus of Middle English alchemical poetry (critical editions and studies)
Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry identifies and investigates a corpus of twenty-one anonymous recipes for the philosophers’ stone dating from the fifteenth century. These were circulated and received in association with each other until the mid-seventeenth centur...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden, Netherlands :
Brill
2013
2013. |
| Colección: | History of science and medicine library ;
v. 42. History of science and medicine library. Medieval and early modern science ; v. 21. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423263706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Matter
- Introduction
- Introduction to a Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry
- The Corpus around the “Verses upon the Elixir”: Origins, Patterns and Peculiarities
- Authorship, Authority and Alchemical Verse
- The Ripley Scrolls: Alchemical Poetry, Images and Authority
- Alchemical Poetry and Academia: Manuscripts as Chronicles of Scholarly Enquiry
- Alchemical Verse and the Organisation of Knowledge
- Concluding Thoughts
- Preface to the Editions
- Poems
- Prose Texts
- Bibliography
- Index.
