Modifié en 2013.International audienceSeveral medieval romances have been alchemically interpreted in the 20th century by certain medievists. We first trace those mistaken interpretations back to their origins. Then we investigate the field of medieval romances in order to point out any evidence that they might bear of actual alchemical motives. Since these investigations show the almost entire, striking absence of alchemy in medieval romances, we explain this fact on terms of cultural history. Then we show the successive stages by which early modern alchemists developed themselves alchemical interpretations of medieval novels, from the Renaissance onwards. Those alchemical readings eventually led to the writing of alchemical novels, especi...
For a long time alchemy has been considered a sort of intellectual and historiographical enigma, a l...
Cette thèse propose de parcourir l’histoire d’un genre littéraire à travers l’analyse de sa producti...
The literary influence of alchemy and hermeticism in the work of most medieval and early modern auth...
Modifié en 2013.International audienceSeveral medieval romances have been alchemically interpreted i...
In medieval alchemical literature, recipes occupy an important place. However, they are often very d...
The fifteenth century saw an explosion of versified alchemical recipes, theories, and musings in Mid...
Alchemy was probably born in Egypt, sometime during Antiquity. It received the influence of the Gree...
none1noBetween the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries, alchemy reached its full maturity in the We...
The alchemical works of Thomas Norton (The Ordinal of Alchemy) and George Ripley (The Compound of Al...
If hermetic texts are inherently “intertextual” as David Meakin has stated, then literary works refe...
International audienceThe alchemical works of Thomas Norton (The Ordinal of Alchemy) and George Ripl...
SUMMARY. — This article groups and analyzes those passages of alchemical texts from the 13th and ear...
Wine and alcohol in apothecaries' shops during the Middle Ages in Southern countries. Alcohol, wine...
The editing of medieval alchemical texts poses a number of challenges to the modern scholar. Problem...
For a long time alchemy has been considered a sort of intellectual and historiographical enigma, a l...
Cette thèse propose de parcourir l’histoire d’un genre littéraire à travers l’analyse de sa producti...
The literary influence of alchemy and hermeticism in the work of most medieval and early modern auth...
Modifié en 2013.International audienceSeveral medieval romances have been alchemically interpreted i...
In medieval alchemical literature, recipes occupy an important place. However, they are often very d...
The fifteenth century saw an explosion of versified alchemical recipes, theories, and musings in Mid...
Alchemy was probably born in Egypt, sometime during Antiquity. It received the influence of the Gree...
none1noBetween the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries, alchemy reached its full maturity in the We...
The alchemical works of Thomas Norton (The Ordinal of Alchemy) and George Ripley (The Compound of Al...
If hermetic texts are inherently “intertextual” as David Meakin has stated, then literary works refe...
International audienceThe alchemical works of Thomas Norton (The Ordinal of Alchemy) and George Ripl...
SUMMARY. — This article groups and analyzes those passages of alchemical texts from the 13th and ear...
Wine and alcohol in apothecaries' shops during the Middle Ages in Southern countries. Alcohol, wine...
The editing of medieval alchemical texts poses a number of challenges to the modern scholar. Problem...
For a long time alchemy has been considered a sort of intellectual and historiographical enigma, a l...
Cette thèse propose de parcourir l’histoire d’un genre littéraire à travers l’analyse de sa producti...
The literary influence of alchemy and hermeticism in the work of most medieval and early modern auth...