Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature

Curtis Runstedler AFHEA is an IRIS-funded (Interchange Forum for Reflecting on Intelligent Systems) postdoctoral researcher in the Department of English Literatures and Cultures at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. He was previously a Teach@Tübingen fellow with the Excellence Initiative at Tübingen University, Germany, and was awarded his PhD in Medieval Literature at Durham University, UK, in 2018.

Introduction: Alchemy and Exemplarity.- Chapter 1: A Brief History of Alchemy.- Chapter 2: Alchemy and Labor in John Gower's Confessio Amantis.- Chapter 3: Alchemists Behaving Badly in Chaucer's Canon's Yeoman's Tale.- Chapter 4: John Lydgate and the Alchemical Churl and the Bird.- Chapter 5: Merlin and the Queen of Elves: Alchemical Dialogues in the Fifteenth Century.- Chapter 6: Conclusion.

"Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry offers useful insights for scholars in a range of fields, most significantly for those interested in the complex literary valences of knowledge-making and transmission." (Thomas Banbury, The British Society for Literature and Science, bsls.ac.uk, January 7, 2024)

“Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry offers useful insights for scholars in a range of fields, most significantly for those interested in the complex literary valences of knowledge-making and transmission.” (Thomas Banbury, The British Society for Literature and Science, bsls.ac.uk, January 7, 2024)