Alchemy and authority in the Holy Roman Empire / Tara Nummedal.
Nummedal, Tara E.
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
Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2007.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xvii, 260 pages) : illustrations
Call Number 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,
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-254) and index.
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