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... experience. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 early modern papermaking chymistry alchemy material book knowledge production Near the end of her seventeenth-century recipe book, Margaret Baker copied a passage on alchemy in the same steady italic hand...

...Peggy A. Knapp © by Duke University Press 2000 JMEMS30.3-08.Knapp 9/1/00 5:06 PM Page 575 The Work of Alchemy Peggy A. Knapp...

... Bacon and the Incorruptible Human, 1220–1292: Alchemy, Pharmacology, and the Desire to Prolong Life . Palgrave Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. xiii, 296 pp., 2 figs. Hardcover, paperback, ebook. Cerrito, Amalia. Albert the Great (c. 1193–1280...

... through consulting the cabbala (133) and subsequently through hard application: the intensive study of nature which involved trav- eling (hence the “shoebuckles alchemy (“the art which makes the impure into the pure through fire” [143 and natural magic (137). The mysteries...

... in many other areas of science, alchemy, and medicine, the secrets of women tradition was also distinct. Whereas many of the other secrets traditions were inherited or derived from texts of Arabic, Greek, or Hebrew origin, the creation of the genre of women’s...

... Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, 416  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 40.2 / 2010 Science, and Art, vol. 6. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2008. xiv, 225 pp.; 23 figs. $99.95. DeVun, Leah. Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time: John of Rupescissa in the Late...

... sanità; e questo si fa con rimedii esperimentati di medicina, e non con la not- omia interiore, ne esteriore.” 5 On Fioravanti’s interest in alchemy, see William Eamon, The Professor of Secrets: Mys- tery, Medicine, and Alchemy in Renaissance Italy (Washington, D.C.: National Geo...

.... $49.00. 168 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 51.1 / 2021 Bauer, Ralph. The Alchemy of Conquest: Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World. Writing the Early Americas. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019. xvi, 649 pp., 48 illus. $79.50. Bellfy, Phil. Three Fires...

... of the lonely believer. Whatever the uncertain mixture of hope, fantasy, and reality in Rollock’s evocation, he does seem to have convinced himself of this spiritual alchemy, shifting in a few words from that faintly tentative “not so much” to the passionate depiction of something “truly felt” in his...

.... Hardcover, ebook. Rampling, Jennifer M. The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300–1700 . Synthesis Series. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. xvii, 408 pp., 19 illus., 2 tables. Hardcover, paperback, ebook. Rhee, Helen. Illness, Pain, and Health Care in Early Christianity...

... for the crude, readily pricked to ferocious savagery, the philosopher's stone of an endless alchemy? To think this way about scripted drama is not to summon its realism (the dull platitude that contradictoriness is what makes characters pleasingly lifelike), but instead to ask how those bodies executed...

.... Hardcover. Eggert, Katherine. Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press in cooperation with the Folger Shakespeare Library, (2015) 2021. 351 pp., 11 illus. Paperback. Eden, Kathy. Rhetorical Renaissance...

... the construction of knowledge within early modern Mediterranean historiography.] Allen, Meagan S. Roger Bacon and the Incorruptible Human, 1220–1292: Alchemy, Pharmacology, and the Desire to Prolong Life . Palgrave Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine. Cham, Switz.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. xiii...

... had been suppressed, there may have still been medieval manuscripts there for the taking.44 In addition to many manuscripts of mathematics, science, alchemy, and magic, Thomas Allen possessed important manuscripts of literary works (including the earliest known version of the Chanson de...

... Press, 2019. xi, 293 pp.; 11 illus. $55.00. Nummedal, Tara. Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire. Chi- cago: University of Chicago Press, (2007) 2019. xvii, 260 pp.; 13 figs. Paper $35.00. Orlemanski, Julie. Symptomatic Subjects: Bodies, Medicine, and Causation in the Literature of Late...

....; 6 figs. $149.00. [On the rhetoric of science and scientific communication.] Smith, Pamela H. The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire. With a new preface by the author. Princeton, N.J.: Prince- ton University Press, (1994) 2016. xxviii, 308 pp.; 30 illus. Paper...

... parts of the social spectrum, from the royal and aristocratic elites to the artisanal professors of sectarian heresy. Yet as these new discourses were emerging, long-­standing traditions in mysticism and alchemy continued to develop. One could go on. The survival of fourteenth-­century...

...: A New Life of Charlemagne. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. xi, 668 pp., 15 maps, 16 illus. $34.95. Nummedal, Tara. Anna Zieglerin and the Lion s Blood: Alchemy and End Times in Reformation Germany. Haney Foundation Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. xii, 288 pp...

... black-­and-­white figs. $90.00. Eggert, Katherine. Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylva- nia Press, in cooperation with the Folger Shakespeare Library, 2015. ix, 351 pp.; 11 illus. $55.00. Luger, Daniel...

... / 2016 Principe, Lawrence M. The Secrets of Alchemy. Synthesis (series). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (2013) 2015. v, 281 pp.; 12 color plates, 26 black-­and-­white figs. Paper $15.00. Rawcliffe, Carole. Urban Bodies: Communal Health in Late Medieval English Towns and Cities...