LEADER 03485nam 22006255 450 001 9910683346903321 005 20230810181308.0 010 $a9783031266065$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031266058 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-26606-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7220714 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7220714 035 $a(OCoLC)1374429002 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-26606-5 035 $a(CKB)26347427000041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9926347427000041 100 $a20230327d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAlchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature /$fby Curtis Runstedler 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (211 pages) 225 1 $aThe New Middle Ages,$x2945-5944 311 08$aPrint version: Runstedler, Curtis Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature Cham : Palgrave Macmillan US,c2023 9783031266058 327 $aIntroduction: Alchemy and Exemplarity -- Chapter 1: A Brief History of Alchemy -- Chapter 2: Alchemy and Labor in John Gower?s Confessio Amantis -- Chapter 3: Alchemists Behaving Badly in Chaucer?s Canon?s Yeoman?s Tale -- Chapter 4: John Lydgate and the Alchemical Churl and the Bird -- Chapter 5: Merlin and the Queen of Elves: Alchemical Dialogues in the Fifteenth Century -- Chapter 6: Conclusion. 330 $aThis book explores the different functions and metaphorical concepts of alchemy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English poetry and bridges them together with the exempla tradition in late medieval English literature. Such poetic narratives function as exemplary models which directly address the ambiguity of medieval English alchemical practice. This book examines the foundation of this relationship between alchemical narrative and exemplum in the poetry of Gower and Chaucer in the fourteenth century before exploring its diffusion in lesser-known anonymous poems and recipes in the fifteenth century, namely alchemical dialogues between Morienus and Merlin, Albertus Magnus and the Queen of Elves, and an alchemical version of John Lydgate?s poem The Churl and the Bird. It investigates how this exemplarity can be read as inherent to understanding poetic narratives containing alchemy, as well as enabling the reader to reassess the understanding and expectations of science and narrative within medieval English poetry. 410 0$aThe New Middle Ages,$x2945-5944 606 $aLiterature, Medieval 606 $aPhilosophy, Medieval 606 $aEurope$xHistory$x476-1492 606 $aPoetry 606 $aMedieval Literature 606 $aMedieval Philosophy 606 $aHistory of Medieval Europe 606 $aPoetry and Poetics 615 0$aLiterature, Medieval. 615 0$aPhilosophy, Medieval. 615 0$aEurope$xHistory$x476-1492. 615 0$aPoetry. 615 14$aMedieval Literature. 615 24$aMedieval Philosophy. 615 24$aHistory of Medieval Europe. 615 24$aPoetry and Poetics. 676 $a821.109337 700 $aRunstedler$b Curtis$01348070 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910683346903321 996 $aAlchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature$93085144 997 $aUNINA