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03433aam a22004698i 4500 001 2FC70D2A026811E89DEE1C1997128E48 003 SILO 005 20180126010225 008 161121s2017 paua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2016053771 020 $a 0812249216 020 $a 9780812249217 035 $a (OCoLC)960292619 040 $a PU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c PAU $d DLC $d BTCTA $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d ERASA $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d OCLCA $d YDX $d IPL $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e------ $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/e 050 00 $a BR115.A57 $b M38 2017 $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/classification/BR1-BR1725 082 00 $a 940.1/84 $2 23 100 1 $a Matus, Zachary A., $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2016160056 245 10 $a Franciscans and the elixir of life : $b religion and science in the later Middle Ages / $c Zachary A. Matus. 250 $a 1st edition. 263 $a 1701 264 1 $a Philadelphia : $b University of Pennsylvania Press, $c [2017] 300 $a 201 pages : b illustrations ; c 23 cm. 490 1 $a The Middle Ages series 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-198) and index. 520 8 $a One of the major ambitions of medieval alchemists was to discover the elixir of life, a sovereign remedy capable not only of healing the body but transforming it. Given the widespread belief that care for the body came at the cost of care for the soul, it might seem surprising that any Franciscan would pursue the elixir, but those who did were among its most outspoken and optimistic advocates. They believed they could distill a substance that would purify, transmute, and ennoble the human body as well as the soul. In an age when Christians across Europe were seeking material evidence of their faith and corporeal means of practicing their devotion, alchemy, and the elixir in particular, offered a means of bridging the terrestrial and the celestial. Framed as a history around science, Franciscans and the Elixir of Life focuses on alchemy as a material practice and investigates the Franciscan discourses and traditions that shaped the pursuit of the elixir, providing a rich examination of alchemy and religiosity. Zachary A. Matus makes new connections between alchemy, ritual life, apocalypticism, and the particular commitment of the Franciscan Order to the natural world, shedding new light on the question of why so many people claimed to have made, seen, or used alchemical compounds that could never have existed. 610 20 $a Franciscans $x History $y To 1500. 610 27 $a Franciscans. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00530004 650 0 $a Alchemy $x History $x Christianity $x History $y To 1500. 650 0 $a Religion and science $z Europe $x History $y To 1500. 650 0 $a Elixir of life. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85042583 650 7 $a Alchemy $x Christianity. $x Christianity. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00804255 650 7 $a Elixir of life. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00908128 650 7 $a Religion and science. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01093848 651 7 $a Europe. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01245064 648 7 $a To 1500 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 830 0 $a Middle Ages series. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86746901 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191217024522.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2FC70D2A026811E89DEE1C1997128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search