(2018)
Alchemy and the Mendicant Orders of Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
Ambix
, 65
(3)
pp. 201-295.
10.1080/00026980.2018.1512778.
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Abstract
Over the last thirty years, alchemy’s reputation has been transformed. This has been driven by many scholars, but in particular by the research of William R. Newman and Lawrence M. Principe. In an important series of works, Newman and Principe have shown that although alchemy was once derided as a pseudoscience – bound up with occult mysticism and lacking any genuine conceptual or practical basis for its claims – it can now be regarded as a respectable, if not essential, part of the history of science. Newman and Principe have termed their revisionist project the “New Historiography” of alchemy. It has helped to stimulate a range of new research into the theory and practice of this art in the medieval and early modern periods, in particular a 2013 Ambix special issue specifically concerned with alchemy and religion. Explaining the rationale for the issue, Tara Nummedal, the guest
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Alchemy and the Mendicant Orders of Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00026980.2018.1512778 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2018.1512778 |
| Language: | English |
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| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > SELCS |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10060426 |
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