...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...

... 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...

... 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 Unity: The Anishnaabeg of the Lake Huron...

... 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...

... 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 that writing, how those bodies were trained to engage that writing within...

... 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...

... 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., 17 illus. $49.95. [On the alchemist Anna Zieglerin s...

... 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...

... pp.; 45 plates, 12 maps, 6 figs., 48 tables. $70.00. Woodward, Walter W. Prospero’s America: John Winthrop, Jr., Alchemy, and the Creation of New England Culture, 1606  – 1676. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture...

... Press, 2011. xvi, 441 pp. Paper $50.00. [Includes various Anglo-­Saxon accounts of the battle with essays on the sources and the battle.] Lock, Humfrey. “Misticall Wordes and Names Infinite”: An Edition and Study of Humfrey Lock’s Treatise on Alchemy. Edited by Peter J. Grund. Medieval...

... provides the model for Peter Brown’s holy man, most recently deŽned by Brown in terms of the “‘transformation ’ of his person, through a Spirit-Ž lled ascetic discipline and through the imaginative alchemy associated with the return of Adam, in the desert, to his Paradise Regained.”4...

..., 2006), 132 – 33. 22 Henderson, “Bible Illustration,” 187. Gaudio, “Looking as a Scholar, Thinking like a Rattle Head,” 365, makes a similar critique of Henderson. Sublimation in an alchemi- cal sense leaves no material remainder; in other registers (Hegelian, Freudian), it does. 23...

..., Matthew, and Brian Muñoz, eds. Anatomy and the Organization of Knowledge, 1500 – 1850. The Body, Gender, and Culture, vol. 9. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2012. xiii, 256 pp.; 12 figs. $99.00. Principe, Lawrence M. The Secrets of Alchemy. Synthesis. Chicago: Univer- sity of Chicago Press, 2013. v...