Mystical metal of gold : essays on alchemy and Renaissance culture
著者
書誌事項
Mystical metal of gold : essays on alchemy and Renaissance culture
（AMS studies in the Renaissance, no. 42）
AMS Press, c2007
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注記
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Continuing strong interest in alchemy and hermeticism in many academic fields is reflected in the growing number of scholarly books and articles, specialized journals, colloquia and conferences, and university-level courses and seminars devoted to these and related subjects. Furthermore, as a visit to virtually any bookshop reveals, there exists a large - perhaps steadily increasing - popular and semi-popular market for these works. Two related characteristics mark the academic, research-oriented side of this burgeoning enterprise: its interdisciplinary nature and its tendency to reassess and reinterpret, often radically, the authors, works, and ideas that are its focus, frequently with the result of discovering a high level of alchemical and hermetic interest where previously it had not been suspected or at least readily admitted. This collection of new essays reflects this groundswell of activity, touching on fields as diverse as history of science and medicine, literature, history, art history and iconography, philosophy, religion, and numismatics. Contributors include both internationally known scholars and several new and original voices. The period of focus is 1500 to 1700 and essays on both English and Continental culture are included. The book's title, ""Mystical Metal of Gold,"" alluding to alchemy's spiritual and physical - esoteric and exoteric - dimensions, itself suggests the rich diversity of this vital field of research.
目次
- Lyndy Abraham, ""A Biography of the English Alchemist Arthur Dee, Author of Fasciculus Chemicus, and Son of Dr. John Dee""
- Penny Bayer, ""From Kitchen Hearth to Learned Paracelsianism: Women and Alchemy in the Renaissance""
- Laurinda Dixon, ""The Cure of Folly by Hieronymous Bosch: Alchemy, Medicine, and Morality""
- Peter J. Forshaw, ""Subliming Spirits: Physical-Chemistry and Theo-Alchemy in the Works of Heinrich Khunrath (1560-1605)""
- Jonathan Hughes, ""The World of Thomas Charnock, an Elizabethan Alchemist""
- Vladimir Karpenko, ""Witnesses of a Dream: Alchemical Coins and Medals""
- George Keiser, ""Preserving the Heritage: Middle English Verse Treatises in Early Modern Manuscripts""
- Stanton J. Linden, ""Smatterings of the Philosopher's Stone: Sir Thomas Browne and Alchemy""
- Yaakov Mascetti, ""'This is the famous stone': George Herbert's Poetic Alchemy in The Elixir""
- Ian McCallum, ""Alchemical Scrolls Associated with George Ripley""
- Alan Rudrum, ""Alchemy, Arminianism, and Calvinism""
- Gyorgy E. Szonyi, ""Representations of Renaissanace Hermetism in Twentieth-Century Postmodern Fiction""
- Urszula Szulakowska, ""The Alchemical Medicine and Christology of Robert Fludd and Abraham von Franckenberg""
- Michael Walton, ""Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Six Days of Creation""
- Michael Wilding, ""A Biography of Edward Kelly, the English Alchemist, and Associate of Dr. John Dee""
- Thomas S. Willard, ""Going Public: Alchemy in the Theater, Museum, and Library, 1602-1702"".
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