Disknowledge: literature, alchemy, and the end of humanism in Renaissance England

Philadelphia: published in cooperation with Folger Shakespeare Library, University of Pennsylvania Press (2015)
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Katherine Eggert explores the crumbling state of humanistic learning in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the benefits of relying on alchemy despite its recognized flaws.

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