John Gower’s Alchemical Afterlife in Elias Ashmole's "Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum" (1652).
- Author / Editor
- Runstedler, Curtis.
John Gower’s Alchemical Afterlife in Elias Ashmole's "Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum" (1652).
- Physical Description
- Neophilologus 104 (2020): 263-81.
- Description
- Explores the reception of John Gower as an alchemist in the sixteenth century, including description of Elias Ashmole's notion that Gower was Chaucer's "master" and "mentor" in alchemical science.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canon's Yeoman and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Chaucer's Life