Alchemy and authority in the Holy Roman Empire / Tara Nummedal.
2007
QD13 .N86 2007eb
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Title
Alchemy and authority in the Holy Roman Empire / Tara Nummedal.
Author
Nummedal, Tara E.
ISBN
9780226608570 (electronic book)
0226608573 (electronic book)
9780226608563
0226608565
0226608573 (electronic book)
9780226608563
0226608565
Publication Details
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2007.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 260 pages) : illustrations
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QD13 .N86 2007eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
540.1/12094
Summary
What distinguished the true alchemist from the fraud? This question animated the lives and labors of the common men?and occasionally women?who made a living as alchemists in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Holy Roman Empire. As purveyors of practical techniques, inventions, and cures, these entrepreneurs were prized by princely patrons, who relied upon alchemists to bolster their political fortunes. At the same time, satirists, artists, and other commentators used the figure of the alchemist as a symbol for Europe?s social and economic ills. Drawing on criminal trial records, contracts,
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-254) and index.
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Table of Contents
Assembling expertise
The alchemist's personae
Entrepreneurial alchemy
Contracting the philosopher's stone
Laboratories, space, and secrecy
Betrüger on trial.
The alchemist's personae
Entrepreneurial alchemy
Contracting the philosopher's stone
Laboratories, space, and secrecy
Betrüger on trial.