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 Middle English recipes for the philosophers’ stone through critical editions and studies on their histories in early modern manuscripts, literature and libraries. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
CRITICAL STUDIES | 13 |
Chapter One Introduction to a Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry | 15 |
Origins Patterns and Peculiarities | 63 |
Chapter Three Authorship Authority and Alchemical Verse | 93 |
Alchemical Poetry Images and Authority | 113 |
Manuscripts as Chronicles of Scholarly Enquiry | 143 |
Chapter Six Alchemical Verse and the Organisation of Knowledge | 173 |
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