The Alchemy of Conquest : Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World /

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"This book explores the role that the verbal, conceptual, and visual language of alchemy played in the literature of the conquest of America and in the rise of an early modern paradigm of discovery in both science and international law. While the roots of the modern 'conquistadorial'...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bauer, Ralph, 1965- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Discoveries in geography.
Alchemy.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Alchemy > Early works to 1800 > History and criticism.
Amerique > Recits avant 1600 > Histoire et critique.
Amerique > Decouverte et exploration.
America.
America > Discovery and exploration.
America > Early accounts to 1600 > History and criticism.
Early works.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Alchemy and Apocalypse in Macondo
  • Part I: The Alchemy of Exception
  • 1. The Hermeneutics of Secrecy: Aristotle and Discovery
  • 2. Egyptian Gold: Alchemy and Crusade in the Later Middle Ages
  • 3. The Alchemy of Conversion: Ramón Llull's Chivalric Missionary Science
  • Part II: The Alchemy of Conquest
  • 4. The Secrets of the World: Christopher Columbus's Ecstatic Materialism
  • 5. The Llullian Renaissance and European Expansionism
  • 6. Physicians of the Soul: The Alchemy of Reduction and Ethno­demonology in Early America
  • Part III: Lucretius's New World
  • 7. Cannibal Heterotopias in the Sixteenth Century
  • 8. Homunculus americanus
  • 9. The Blood of the Dragon: Alchemy and New World Materia Medica
  • Part IV: The Alchemy of the White Legend
  • 10. Walter Raleigh's Legends: Black, Gold, and White
  • 11. Things of Darkness: Alchemy, Ethno­demonology, and the Protestant Cant of Conquest
  • 12. Eating Bacon: Alchemy and Cannibal Science
  • Coda: Alexander von Humboldt, Alchemist of the Tropics
  • Notes
  • Index

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