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From Rags to Paper: Alchemy, Chymistry, and the Perfective Art of Papermaking
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (2): 399–423.
Published: 01 May 2024
... 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...
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The Work of Alchemy
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (3): 575–599.
Published: 01 September 2000
...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...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2025) 55 (2): 379–393.
Published: 01 May 2025
... 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...
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Medicine, Metaphor, and “Crisis” in the Early Modern Social Body
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 117–139.
Published: 01 January 2016
... 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...
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From “Diseases of Women” to “Secrets of Women”: The Transformation of Gynecological Literature in the Later Middle Ages
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (1): 5–40.
Published: 01 January 2000
... 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...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (2): 401–420.
Published: 01 May 2010
... 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...
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Vesalius among the Surgeons
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (1): 125–151.
Published: 01 January 2018
... 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...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (1): 161–171.
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.... $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...
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Flame into Being: Spirits, Soul, and the Physiology of Early Modern Devotion
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 141–165.
Published: 01 January 2016
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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...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 433–445.
Published: 01 May 2023
.... 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...
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Undeadness
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 497–507.
Published: 01 September 2021
... 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...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 641–655.
Published: 01 September 2023
.... 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...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 203–216.
Published: 01 January 2024
... 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...
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Manuscript as Sacred Object: Robert Hegge’s N-Town Plays
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (3): 503–529.
Published: 01 September 2014
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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...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (1): 181–195.
Published: 01 January 2020
... 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...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (1): 183–197.
Published: 01 January 2018
....;
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...
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English Reformations
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (3): 425–438.
Published: 01 September 2010
... 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...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 455–471.
Published: 01 May 2020
...: 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...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (3): 639–656.
Published: 01 September 2017
... 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...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 189–207.
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... / 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...
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