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Alchemical Belief:

Occultism in the Religious Culture of Early Modern England
  • ISBN-13: 9780271050133
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Bruce Janacek
  • Price: AUD $180.00
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  • Local release date: 14/12/2011
  • Format: Hardback 240 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Alternative belief systems [HRQ]
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Explores the practice of alchemy in the context of the religious and political tensions in late Elizabethan and early Stuart England, and the use of occult knowledge to demonstrate proof of theological doctrines.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Thomas Tymme and Natural Philosophy: Schism and Alchemical Unity in the Book of Nature

2 Robert Fludd, Natural Theology, and the Alchemical Debate of 1623

3 Francis Bacon, Alchemy, and the Great Redemption

4 Catholic Natural Philosophy: Alchemy and the Revivification of Sir Kenelm Digby

5 Elias Ashmole: The Collection and Culmination of Alchemical Thought

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“What emerges from Janacek’s treatment of his sources is carefully drawn representation of the many ways in which alchemy provided a language and a method for understanding and ultimately restoring order in a profoundly disordered world. This study demonstrates how the study of learned occultism provides a profitable means for lifting the veil on a critical but complex period in early modern history.”

—Wm. Bradford Smith, Sixteenth Century Journal

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