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Author : Charles Webster
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521226431
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Health, Medicine and Mortality in the Sixteenth Century written by Charles Webster and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1979-11-30 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dorothea Waley Singer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (942 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of Latin and Vernacular Alchemical Manuscripts in Great Britain and Ireland, Dating from Before the 16th Century written by Dorothea Waley Singer and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eoin Bentick
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843846446
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Literatures of Alchemy in Medieval and Early Modern England written by Eoin Bentick and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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!
Author : Constantino de Pisa
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004092884
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (928 download)
Download or read book The Book of the Secrets of Alchemy written by Constantino de Pisa and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1990 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Liber secretorum alchimie" is an attempt to introduce alchemy into Aristotle's science: manipulating metals, astronomy, astrology, geography and even theology are combined in these lecture notes taken by a 13th century medical student to make a fascinating review of themes which were hotly debated in medieval Italian university circles.
Author : Bertie Wilkinson
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521217323
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (173 download)
Download or read book The High Middle Ages in England 1154-1377 written by Bertie Wilkinson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1978-06-22 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All aspects of England in the High Middle Ages are covered, including sections on social, economic, religious, military, intellectual and art history, as well as on political and constitutional history."--Publisher description.
Author : M.B. Parkes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135121960X
Total Pages : 615 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Pages from the Past written by M.B. Parkes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the present collection of articles by Malcolm Parkes two overarching concerns emerge: the palaeography of manuscript books in relation to what Parkes has previously called the 'grammar of legibility'; and the importance of considering the circumstances in which medieval books were produced, copied and read. The individual studies discuss the handwriting of individual scribes, and the evidence script can provide of the circumstances of a book's production, the effect of punctuation and layout of text on the reader's interpretation of a work, and the provision and production of books for communities of readers, both clerical and academic. From a discussion of the scribe of the Hereford Mappa Mundi to a comprehensive study of book provision in the medieval University of Oxford, a wealth of information is conveyed in these articles, now conveniently accessible in one volume, about books and their histories by one of the most knowledgeable of manuscript scholars today.
Author : DeLloyd J. Guth
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521208772
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Late-medieval England, 1377-1485 written by DeLloyd J. Guth and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1976 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stanton J. Linden
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813150175
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Darke Hierogliphicks written by Stanton J. Linden and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literary influence of alchemy and hermeticism in the work of most medieval and early modern authors has been overlooked. Stanton Linden now provides the first comprehensive examination of this influence on English literature from the late Middle Ages through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Drawing extensively on alchemical allusions as well as on the practical and theoretical background of the art and its pictorial tradition, Linden demonstrates the pervasiveness of interest in alchemy during this three-hundred-year period. Most writers—including Langland, Gower, Barclay, Eramus, Sidney, Greene, Lyly, and Shakespeare—were familiar with alchemy, and references to it appear in a wide range of genres. Yet the purposes it served in literature from Chaucer through Jonson were narrowly satirical. In literature of the seventeenth century, especially in the poetry of Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Milton, the functions of alchemy changed. Focusing on Bacon, Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Milton—in addition to Jonson and Butler—Linden demonstrates the emergence of new attitudes and innovative themes, motifs, images, and ideas. The use of alchemy to suggest spiritual growth and change, purification, regeneration, and millenarian ideas reflected important new emphases in alchemical, medical, and occultist writing. This new tradition did not continue, however, and Butler's return to satire was contextualized in the antagonism of the Royal Society and religious Latitudinarians to philosophical enthusiasm and the occult. Butler, like Shadwell and Swift, expanded the range of satirical victims to include experimental scientists as well as occult charlatans. The literary uses of alchemy thus reveal the changing intellectual milieus of three centuries.
Author : Modern Humanities Research Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature written by Modern Humanities Research Association and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes both books and articles.
Author : Geoffrey (of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph)
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0859912132
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (599 download)
Download or read book The Historia regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth: A summary catalogue of the manuscripts written by Geoffrey (of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph) and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1985 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fine research tool which has so many applications. SPECULUM
Author : Barbara Obrist
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004625712
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Constantine of Pisa: The Book of the Secrets of Alchemy written by Barbara Obrist and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Liber secretorum alchimie is an attempt to introduce alchemy into Aristotle's science: manipulating metals, astronomy, astrology, geography and even theology are combined in these lecture notes taken by a 13th century medical student to make a fascinating review of themes which were hotly debated in medieval Italian university circles.
Author : Frank Klaassen
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271061758
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Transformations of Magic written by Frank Klaassen and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original, provocative, well-reasoned, and thoroughly documented book, Frank Klaassen proposes that two principal genres of illicit learned magic occur in late medieval manuscripts: image magic, which could be interpreted and justified in scholastic terms, and ritual magic (in its extreme form, overt necromancy), which could not. Image magic tended to be recopied faithfully; ritual magic tended to be adapted and reworked. These two forms of magic did not usually become intermingled in the manuscripts, but were presented separately. While image magic was often copied in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, The Transformations of Magic demonstrates that interest in it as an independent genre declined precipitously around 1500. Instead, what persisted was the other, more problematic form of magic: ritual magic. Klaassen shows that texts of medieval ritual magic were cherished in the sixteenth century, and writers of new magical treatises, such as Agrippa von Nettesheim and John Dee, were far more deeply indebted to medieval tradition—and specifically to the medieval tradition of ritual magic—than previous scholars have thought them to be.
Author : British Museum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Catalogues of the British Museum: Manuscript collections, by T. C. Skeat written by British Museum and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jennifer M. Rampling
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226826546
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book The Experimental Fire written by Jennifer M. Rampling and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-03-08 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Meagan S. Allen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031128982
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Roger Bacon and the Incorruptible Human, 1220-1292 written by Meagan S. Allen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the Franciscan alchemist Roger Bacon’s (1220-1292) interest in the role of alchemy in medicine, and how this interest connected with the thirteenth-century milieu in which he was writing. Though twelfth-century Latin alchemy had largely been concerned with transmuting base metals into noble ones, Bacon believed that the natural principles taught in alchemy would be better used in medicine. In an age where many physicians were theorizing about ways to prevent the effects of aging, Bacon held that combining alchemy and humoral medicine would allow one to extend their life by decades, even centuries. By examining Bacon’s alchemical, medical, and mathematical works, this book argues that Bacon combined a number of sources to create a unique plan for prolonging human life. His understanding of disease and aging was ultimately Galenic in nature, and his understanding of how pharmaceuticals work can be traced back to his mathematical theories, especially that of the multiplication of species. The book provides a new system for organizing Bacon’s alchemically-produced medicines, and explains what Bacon saw as the difference between each, and how they could have different physiological effects. Bacon is situated within the thirteenth-century contexts in which he was writing – that of the university-educated and newly professionalized medical practitioners, who were invested in finding ways to extend human life; and the Franciscan order, with their understanding of the innate goodness of the physical body, the resurrection, and corporeal union with God. Filling a major lacuna in scholarship on the history of medieval medical writings, this book provides vital reading for historians of medicine, pre- and early modern European science, and medieval philosophy and religion.
Author : University of Aberdeen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Library Bulletin written by University of Aberdeen and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Surveys of Historical Manuscripts in the United Kingdom written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
