Nourishing the alchemical child: metaphors of family life as textual cohesion in the fifteenth-century The Gracious Work

English-language alchemical manuscript texts remain under-studied despite their potential for providing new insights into the textual histories of alchemy. In this article, I use close reading of one such Middle English alchemical text, which I name The Gracious Work, to examine how its alchemical m...

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Main Author: Sara Norja
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press
Series:BJHS Themes
Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2058850X25100180/type/journal_article
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