Alchemical Belief: Occultism in the Religious Culture of Early Modern England - Brossura

Janacek, Bruce

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0271050144 ISBN 13: 9780271050140

Casa editrice: Penn State University Press, 2011

Riassunto

What did it mean to believe in alchemy in early modern England? In this book, Bruce Janacek considers alchemical beliefs in the context of the writings of Thomas Tymme, Robert Fludd, Francis Bacon, Sir Kenelm Digby, and Elias Ashmole. Rather than examine alchemy from a scientific or medical perspective, Janacek presents it as integrated into the broader political, philosophical, and religious upheavals of the first half of the seventeenth century, arguing that the interest of these elite figures in alchemy was part of an understanding that supported their national--and in some cases royalist--loyalty and theological orthodoxy. Janacek investigates how and why individuals who supported or were actually placed at the traditional center of power in England's church and state believed in the relevance of alchemy at a time when their society, their government, their careers, and, in some cases, their very lives were at stake.

Su questo libro

L'autore

Bruce Janacek is Associate Professor of History at North Central College.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Penn State University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0271050144
• ISBN 13: 9780271050140
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240