Alchemical Motifs in Chrétien’s Romances
On Chrétien de Troyes (fl.1160–1191) as an artful celebrator, Freeman (1979) writes: Renowned experts and a few enlightened laymen now concur that artificers – be they weavers, seamstresses, blacksmiths, sculptors, architects, apothecaries, even sorceresses – all engage in variants of the same fundamental processes whereby basic materials, though artfully reshaped according to the tastes and […]
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