The Merda Philosophorum: An English Problem
- Author / Editor
- Friedman, John B.
The Merda Philosophorum: An English Problem
- Published
- Marlene Villalobos Hennessy, ed. Tributes to Kathleen L. Scott. English Medieval Manuscripts: Readers, Makers and Illuminators (London: Harvey Miller), pp. 83-100.
- Description
- CYPT shares details and concerns found in other late medieval and early modern English alchemical treatises, part of the genre of "alchemical autobiography." Like CYPT in considering the function of organic material (especially excrement) in alchemical transformation, other treatises, however, are less satiric than Chaucer's work: Thomas Norton's "Ordinal of Alchemy," Bernard of TreĢvisan's "Livre," George Ripley's "Compound of Alchemy," and others.
- Alternative Title
- Tributes to Kathleen L. Scott. English Medieval Manuscripts: Readers, Makers and Illuminators.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canon's Yeoman and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations