Alchemy and Exemplary Narrative in Middle English Poetry

[Paul Ferguson]

Thesis by CT Runstedler, Durham Univ.

"This thesis examines the role of alchemy in Middle English poetry from fourteenth- and
fifteenth-century England, particularly how these poems present themselves as exemplary
narratives to raise moral points about human behaviour, fallibility, and alchemical
experimentation."


http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/12593/1/Runsted....pdf?DDD11+

[Paul Ferguson]

Now in book form. Reviewed here:

https://historymedieval.com/alchemy-and-...iterature/