125th Annual Meeting (January 6-9, 2011): Transmuting Christianity: Alchemical Speculation and Christian Doctrine in the Late Middle Ages

Transmuting Christianity: Alchemical Speculation and Christian Doctrine in the Late Middle Ages

American Society of Church History 6

Friday, January 7, 2011: 9:30 AM-11:30 AM

St. George Room A (The Westin Copley Place)

Chair:

Kevin Madigan, Harvard University

Papers:

Distilling Heaven: Franciscans and the Elixir, 1250–1350
Zachary A. Matus, Harvard University

The Crucible of Creation: Popular Heresy Meets Vernacular Alchemy in Fourteenth-Century Languedoc
Louisa A. Burnham, Middlebury College

Was Alchemy Superstitious? Nicholas Eymeric's Contra alchimistas and the Place of Alchemy in Late Medieval Critiques of Superstition
Michael D. Bailey, Iowa State University

Comment:

Kevin Madigan, Harvard University

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