Verse and Transmutation

A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry (Critical Editions and Studies)
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-25484-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 374 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 748 g

Reihe: Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Timmermann, Anke

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

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.