Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry (Critical Editions and Studies) - Couverture rigide

Timmermann, Anke

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004254846 ISBN 13 : 9789004254848

Editeur : Brill, 2013

Synopsis

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 century, when a number of them appeared in Elias Ashmole's Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum.

These editions are the first to make this previously unidentified corpus available to researchers. The accompanying studies discover the complex histories of these alchemica, in plain and illuminated manuscripts, as anonyma and in attribution to famous authors, and in private and institutional, medical and academic book collections. Together, they offer novel insights into the role of alchemy and poetry in late medieval and early modern England.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Anke Timmermann, Ph.D. (Cantab. 2007), is a historian of science and Munby Fellow in Bibliography at Cambridge University Library (2013-14). Her publications include various articles on medieval and early modern alchemy and medicine, scientific poetry and historical manuscripts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004254846
• ISBN 13: 9789004254848
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 390
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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