Franciscans and the Elixir of Life : : Religion and Science in the Later Middle Ages / / Zachary A. Matus.
One of the major ambitions of medieval alchemists was to discover the elixir of life, a sovereign remedy capable not only of healing the body but of transforming it. Given the widespread belief that care for the body came at the cost of care for the soul, it might seem surprising that any Franciscan...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 2 ilus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Franciscans and the Sacral Cosmos (The Context of Franciscan Alchemy)
- Chapter 2. Three Elixirs
- Chapter 3. The Apocalyptic Imperative
- Chapter 4. A Subjunctive Science
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Acknowledgments