The 'Forgotten' Language of Middle English Alchemy: Exploring Alchemical Lexis in the 'MED' and the 'OED'

Author / Editor
Grund, Peter J.

Title
The 'Forgotten' Language of Middle English Alchemy: Exploring Alchemical Lexis in the 'MED' and the 'OED'

Published
Review of English Studies 65, no. 271 (2014): 575-95.

Description
Differentiates "literary" uses of alchemical terms from those of alchemical treatises and shows that Chaucer's CYT is one of the seven most frequent alchemical sources in the seventy citations within the "MED."

Chaucer Subjects
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale
Language and Word Studies