Medieval Studies for J. A. W. Bennett Aetatis suae LXX.
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• Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction;
• 1 ""A Clew and a Labyrinth"": Backgrounds, Definitions, and Preliminaries;
• 2 ""Concluden Everemoore Amys"": Chaucer and the Medieval Heritage of Alchemical Satire;
• 3 Posers and Impostors: Sixteenth-Century Alchemical Satire;
• 4 The Reformation of Vulcan: Francis Bacon and Alchemy;
• 5 ""Abstract riddles of our stone"": Ben Jonson and the Drama of Alchemy;
• 6 ""A True Religious Alchimy"": The Poetry of Donne and Herbert.

• 7 ""That Great & Generall Refining Day"": Alchemy, Allegory, and Eschatology in the Seventeenth Century8 ""Under vailes, and Hieroglyphicall Covertures"": Alchemy in the Poetry of Vaughan and Milton;
• 9 ""Teutonick Chimericall extravagancies"": Alchemy, Poetry, and the Restoration Revolt against Enthusiasm;
• 10 Cauda Pavonis; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.

The literary influence of alchemy and hermeticism in the work of most medieval and early modern authors has been overlooked. Stanton Linden now provides the first comprehensive examination of this influence on English literature from the late Middle Ages through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Drawing extensively on alchemical allusions as well as on the practical and theoretical background of the art and its pictorial tradition, Linden demonstrates the pervasiveness of interest in alchemy during this three-hundred-year period. Most writers -- including Langland, Gower, Barclay, Eramu.

• Introduction
• PART I: THE CONWAY FAMILY AND THE CONWAY PAPERS
• 1. 'At length I fell in to Imagination': Sir John Conway
• 2. 'An honest man, who knows more about the sword than the pen': Edward, First Viscount Conway and Killultagh
• 3. The Knight's Move: Conway and A Game at Chess
• 4. Fide et Amore: the First Viscount Conway's Legacies
• 5. 'What is a Gentleman but his pleasure?' Edward, Second Viscount Conway and Killultagh
• 6. Booklets, Books, Ballads, and Birds: the Second Viscount Conway as Collector
• 7. The Curious History of the Conway Papers
• 8. Conceptualizing the Conway Papers
• PART II: JOHN DONNE, SIR HENRY GOODERE, AND MANUSCRIPT CIRCULATION
• 9. Donne's Verse Letters
• 10. Sir Henry Goodere, Poet and Scribe
• 11. Problematum miscellaneorum: the Problems and Biathanatos, 1603-10
• 12. The Intelligence that Moves: Donne, Goodere, and Conway, 1610-1615
• 13. Textual Transmission and Court Patronage in the 1620s
• 14. Conflicts of Interest: Donne, Goodere, Conway, and Seventeenth-Century Patronage
• CONCLUSION: PATRONAGE AND MANUSCRIPT CIRCULATION
• Appendix 1: Conway and Goodere Family Trees
• Appendix 2: Literary Manuscripts in the Conway Papers.
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How and why did men and women send handwritten poetry, drama, and literary prose to their friends and social superiors in the seventeenth century-and what were the consequences of these communications? Within this culture of manuscript publication, why did John Donne (1572-1631), an author who attempted to limit the circulation of his works, become the most transcribed writer of his age? John Donne and the Conway Papers examines these questions in great detail. Daniel Starza Smith investigates a seventeenth-century archive, the Conway Papers, in order to explain the relationship between Donne and the archive's owners, the Conway family. Drawing on an enormous amount of primary material, he situates Donne's writings within the broader workings of manuscript circulation, from the moment a scribe identified a source text, through the process of transcription and onwards to the social ramifications of this literary circulation. John Donne and the Conway Papers offers the first full-length analysis of three generations of the Conway family between Elizabeth's succession and the end of the Civil War, explaining what the Conway Papers are and how they were amassed, how the archive came to contain a concentration of manuscript poetry by Donne, and what the significance of this fact is, in terms of seventeenth-century politics, patronage, and culture. Answers to these questions cast new light on the early transmission of Donne's verse and prose. Throughout, John Donne and the Conway Papers emphasizes the importance of Donne's closest friends and earliest readers-such as George Garrard, Rowland Woodward, and Sir Henry Goodere-in the dissemination of his poetry. Goodere in particular emerges as a key agent in the early circulation of Donne's verse, and this book offers the first sustained account of his literary activities.
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The extracts represent not only familiar authors but also texts which have never before been published or are available only in very obscure editions.
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With a glossary by: Davis, Norman; .
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• Some aspects of medieval number symbolism in Langland's Piers Plowman, A-text [by] L.L.Lattin.--Eschatological themes in English medieval drama [by] H.D.McClure.--A note on Lydgate's Corious flour of rethorik [by] B.L.Daniel.--Lattin bibliography (p.363̲7)--McClure bibliography (p.38-39)--Daniel bibliography (p.40)

• Introduction.--Text from Ms. University of Minnesota, Z.822, N.81.--Text from Ms. Trinity College, Cambridge, 601.--Text from Ms. Bodleian, 10234.--Notes.--Bibliography (p. [138]-139)

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• 1. Texts.--pt.
• 2. Notes.

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• 1. From 'Old English homilies' to 'King Horn' A.D. 1150-A.D.
• 1330. 1882--pt.2. From Robert of Gloucester to Gower, A.D. 1298--A.D.
• 1393. A new ed., rev. for the second time. 1879.

• Of the leaven of Pharisees
• How men ought to obey prelates
• The rule and testament of St. Francis
• Of prelates
• Speculum de antichristo
• Of clerks possessioners
• How the office of curates is ordained of God
• The order of priesthood
• Three things destroy this world
• Of feigned contemplative life
• The Paternoster
• The Ave Maria
• How Satan and his children turn works of mercy upside down, and deceive men therein, and in their five wits
• How religious men should keep certain articles
• Of servants and lords
• Why poor priests have no benefice
• How Antichrist and his clerks travail to destroy Holy Writ
• How Satan and his priests and his feigned religious cast by three cursed heresies to destroy all good living and maintain all manner of sin
• Of poor preaching priests
• Augustinus
• Of Dominion
• Tractatus de Pseudo-freris
• Of Confession
• Of faith, hope, and charity
• De sacramento Altaris
• The clergy may not hold property --- Appendix on the wrongfulness of their undertaking secular work
• De Officio Pastorali
• De Papa.