Run Silent, Run Deep: Hereesy and Alchemy as Medieval Versions of Utopia

Author / Editor
Delany, Sheila.

Title
Run Silent, Run Deep: Hereesy and Alchemy as Medieval Versions of Utopia

Published
Sheila Delany, Medieval Literary Politics: Shapes of Ideology (University of Manchester Press, 1990), pp. 1-18.

Description
Surveys utopian attitudes, including alchemy. CYT reflects Chaucer's awareness of the "genuinely subversive thrust" of alchemy as an alternative to Pauline-Augustinian orthodoxy.

Chaucer Subjects
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale