Chaucer the Alchemist
Alexander N. Gabrovsky
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
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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.
- ISBN-13
- 9781137541345
- ISBN-10
- 1137541342
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Year
- 2015
- Publication date
- 2015-09-16
- Pages
- 291
- Dimensions
- 148x223x23
- Weight
- 508