Chaucer

Like it or not, the chemistry is going out of analytical chemistry. For a long time indeed, Chaucer with his... 

Talbot, C.H. "The elixir of youth." In Chaucer and Middle English studies in honour ofR.H. Robbins, ed. B. Rowland, 31-42. London Allen Unwin, 1974. 

Alchemical theories are central to the middle ages and the Renaissance. Chaucer and Shakespeare were heavily steeped in the subject, and it still exerts a fascination today. This is a scholarly and accessible introduction to Western European alchemy, and to the iconography of Alchemical works from antiquity to the rise of chemistry. It includes an illustrated glossary of Alchemical terms and biographies of major alchemists. It is intended for students of medieval and Renaissance art, literature and history art historians and anyone with a general interest in the history and principles of alchemy or medieval culture... 

Armstrong, Dorsey, Jennifer Brown, Nicole Clifton, Kenneth Hodges, Juris Lidaka, Marion Turner and Greg Walker. Middle English excluding Chaucer. Years Work in Englsih Studies (2005). 

Duncan, Edgar Hill. "Alchemy in the writings of Chaucer, Jonson and Donne." PhD thesis, Vanderbilt Univ, 1941. 

Linden, Stanton J. Darke hierogliphicks alchemy in English literature from Chaucer to the Restoration. Lexington (KY) Univ P of Kentucky, 1996. ix, 373 p. ISBN 0-8131-1968-5... 

Includes alchemy in Chaucer, Norton, Jonson Shakespeare... 

Curry, Walter Clyde. Chaucer and the mediaeval sciences. Oxford OUP, 1926. 267p. 

Fleay, F.G. Some folk-lore from Chaucer. Folk-Lore Rec 2 (1879) 135-162. 

Green, Richard Firth. Changing Chaucer. Studs in the Age of Chaucer the Yearbook of the New Chaucer Society 25 (2003) 27-52. 

Grenberg, Bruce L. The Canon s Yeoman s tale Boethian wisdom and the alchemists. Chaucer Rev 1, no. 1 (Summer 1966) 37-54. 

Manly, J.M. Some new light on Chaucer. New York Holt, 1926. 

Spargo, J.W. "The Canon s Yeomans prologue and tale." In Sources and analogues of Chaucer s Canterbury Tales, eds. W.F. Bryan and G. Dempster, 658-698. New York London Humanities P Routledge Kegan Paul, 1958. 

Spurgeon, Caroline Frances Eleanor, ed.Five hundred years of Chaucer criticism and allusion. Cambridge Cambridge Univ P, 1925. 3 vols... 

Chaucer, Geoffrey. "The Canon s Yeoman s tale." In Canterbury tales, 465-490. Penguin, 1960. 

Chaucer, Geoffrey.The Canterbury tales a modem prose rendering. Translated by David Wright. London 1965 reprint,. ... 

Chaucer, Geoffrey. Chaucer - The Canon Yeoman s Tale. rhttp //www.levitv.com/alchemy/chaucer.html1. 

Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400) in his Canterbury Tales written between 1386-90, provided a portrait of the society of his times. Within this collection of stories, the Canon Yeoman s tale, gives us an insight into some of the ways in which alchemy was viewed at that time. Chaucer obviously had more than a superficial undertsanding of alchemy"... 

Chaucer, Geoffrey.The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales and The Canon s Yeoman s Prologue and Tale. Edited by A.V.C. Schmidt. Edited by A.V.C. Schmidt. New York Holmes Meier, 1976. 

Chaucer, Geoffrey.The Riverside Chaucer. Edited by Larry D. Benson. 3rd ed ed. Edited by Larry D. Benson. Oxford OUP, 1987. 

Chaucer, Geoffrey. "The tale of the Chanons Yeoman. Written by our ancient and famous English poet, Geoffry Chaucer." In Thatrum chemicum Britannicum, ed. Elias Ashmole, 227-256., 1652. 

Aiken, Pauline. Vincent of Beauvais and Chaucer s knowledge of alchemy. 

Duncan, Edgar Hill. Chaucer and Arnold of the Newe Toun. Mod Lang Notes 57, no. 1 (Jan 1942) 31-33. 

Duncan, Edgar Hill. The literature of alchemy and Chaucer s Canon s Yeoman s Tale framework, theme, and characters. Speculum 43, no. 4 (Oct 1968) 635-656. 

Finkelstein, Dorothee. The code of Chaucer s "Secree of Secrees" Arabaic alchemical terminology in The Canon s Yeoman s Tale. Arch Studneu Sprach Lit Deutsch 122, no. 207 (1970-1971) 260-276. 

Fisher, Sheila. "Chaucer s poetic alchemy a study of value and its transformation in The Canterbury tales." PhD thesis, Yale University, Department of English Language and Literature, 1982. 

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