Chaucer the Alchemist : Physics, Mutability, and the Medieval Imagination

Name: Chaucer the Alchemist
Brand: Palgrave Macmillan
SKU: 9781137541345
Price: 19800 KES
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ISBN: 9781137541345

1st ed. 2015

by Alexander N. Gabrovsky

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Format Hardback

Book Series The New Middle Ages

ISBN-10 1137541342

ISBN-13 9781137541345

Edition 1st ed. 2015

Publisher Palgrave Macmillan

Imprint Palgrave Macmillan

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 16th, 2015

Print length 291 Pages

Weight 508 grams

Dimensions 14.80 x 22.30 x 2.30 cms

Product Classification: Europe Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Literary studies: classical, early & medieval Literary studies: poetry & poets Literary studies: poetry and poets

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The secrets of nature's alchemy captivated both the scientific and literary imagination of the Middle Ages. This book explores Chaucer's fascination with earth's mutability. Gabrovsky reveals that his poetry represents a major contribution to a medieval worldview centered on the philosophy of physics, astronomy, alchemy, and logic.

The secrets of Nature''s alchemy and the mysteries of "change" captivated both the scientific and literary imagination of the Middle Ages. Beneath the sphere of the moon in the medieval realm of mutability, the endless process of chemical transmutation of one element into another was seen as the basis of all physical change on Earth; human beings, animals, and all material things were thought to be part of a continual cycle of generation and corruption. This book investigates Chaucer''s fascination with earthly mutability. Gabrovsky argues that an integrated knowledge of alchemy and physics is crucial to our understanding of the physical and psychological transformations central to Chaucer''s poetry. He reveals that Chaucer''s oeuvre represents a major contribution to the philosophy of physics, astronomy, alchemy, and logic, bringing to light a medieval worldview centered on the infinite variety of transformations in the natural world.

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