Recent Publications on Paracelsus and Paracelsianism

2021

Books

Schnitzler, Arthur: Paracelsus: Historisch-kritische Ausgabe, ed. by Isabella Schwentner and Konstanze Fliedl, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2021.
 DOI: 10.1515/9783110712247

Articles

Moran, Bruce T.: ‘Court Authority and the University: Networks, Recipes, and Things-in-the-Making vs. the Abstractions of Made Things’, in: Ambix, 68 (2021), no. 2-3, p. 135-153.
 DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2021.1922008

Moreau, Elisabeth: ‘Learning the Chymical Compromise: Paracelsian and Galenic Medicine in Marburg Disputations on Chymiatria’, in: Ambix, 68 (2021), no. 2-3, p. 154-179.
 DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2021.1930676

Principe, Lawrence M.: ‘The Changing Visions of Chymistry at Seventeenth-Century Jena: The Two Brendels, Rolfinck, Wedel, and Others’, in: Ambix, 68 (2021), no. 2-3, p. 180-197.
 DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2021.1922021

Hirai, Hiro: ‘Daniel Sennert, Chymistry, and Theological Debates’, in: Ambix, 68 (2021), no. 2-3, p. 198-213.
 DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2021.1936354

Hedesan, Georgiana D.: ‘The Influence of Louvain Teaching on Jan Baptist Van Helmont’s Adoption of Paracelsianism and Alchemy’, in: Ambix, 68 (2021), no. 2-3, p. 231-246.
 DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2021.1922020

Frietsch, Ute: ‘Making University Fields for Chymistry: A Case Study of Helmstedt University’, in: Ambix, 68 (2021), no. 2-3, p. 273-301.
 DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2021.1922018

Chapters

Frietsch, Ute: ‘Solve Coagulata! Verflüssige die Schöpfung!: Die pseudo-paracelsische Schrift Philosophia ad Athenienses als Rätsel und Offenbarung’, in: Darstellung und Geheimnis in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, ed. by Jutta Eming and Volkhard Wels, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2021 = Episteme in Bewegung, v. 21, pp. 279-294.
 DOI: 10.13173/9783447115483.279

2022

Books

Pseudo-Paracelsus: Forgery and Early Modern Alchemy, Medicine and Natural Philosophy, ed. by Didier Kahn and Hiro Hirai, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2022.
 DOI: 10.1163/9789004503380

Daniel, Dane T.: ‘The Authenticity of Paracelsus’ Astronomia Magna and Brief an die Wittenberger Theologen: Towards a Diagnostic Rubric Clarifying Authentic and Spurious Elements in Paracelsus’ Oeuvre on the Basis of Theological Motifs’, in: Pseudo-Paracelsus: Forgery and Early Modern Alchemy, Medicine and Natural Philosophy, ed. by Didier Kahn and Hiro Hirai, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2022, pp. 7-26.
 DOI: 10.1163/9789004503380_003

Kahn, Didier: ‘The Philosophia ad Athenienses in the Light of Genuine Paracelsian Cosmology’, in: Pseudo-Paracelsus: Forgery and Early Modern Alchemy, Medicine and Natural Philosophy, ed. by Didier Kahn and Hiro Hirai, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2022, pp. 27-60.
 DOI: 10.1163/9789004503380_004

Bulang, Thomas: ‘Genealogy of Knowledge and Delegitimization of Universities: The Pseudo-Paracelsian Aurora Philosophorum’, in: Pseudo-Paracelsus: Forgery and Early Modern Alchemy, Medicine and Natural Philosophy, ed. by Didier Kahn and Hiro Hirai, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2022, pp. 61-72.
 DOI: 10.1163/9789004503380_005

Hirai, Hiro: ‘Into the Forger’s Library: The Genesis of De natura rerum in Publication History’, in: Pseudo-Paracelsus: Forgery and Early Modern Alchemy, Medicine and Natural Philosophy, ed. by Didier Kahn and Hiro Hirai, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2022, pp. 73-91.
 DOI: 10.1163/9789004503380_006

Gunnoe, Charles D., Jr.: ‘Paracelsus, the Plague, and De Pestilitate’, in: Pseudo-Paracelsus: Forgery and Early Modern Alchemy, Medicine and Natural Philosophy, ed. by Didier Kahn and Hiro Hirai, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2022, pp. 92-114.
 DOI: 10.1163/9789004503380_007

Principe, Lawrence M.: ‘The Development of the Basil Valentine Corpus and Biography: Pseudepigraphic Corpora and Paracelsian Ideas’, in: Pseudo-Paracelsus: Forgery and Early Modern Alchemy, Medicine and Natural Philosophy, ed. by Didier Kahn and Hiro Hirai, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2022, pp. 137-159.
 DOI: 10.1163/9789004503380_009

Paulus, Julian: ‘A Catalogue raisonné of Pseudo-Paracelsian Writings: Texts Attributed to Paracelsus and Paracelsian Writings of Doubtful Authenticity’, in: Pseudo-Paracelsus: Forgery and Early Modern Alchemy, Medicine and Natural Philosophy, ed. by Didier Kahn and Hiro Hirai, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2022, pp. 161-486.
 DOI: 10.1163/9789004503380_010

Grendler, Paul F.: Humanism, Universities, and Jesuit Education in Late Renaissance Italy, Leiden: Brill, 2022 = History of Early Modern Educational Thought, v. 4, chapter 11: On the Causes of the Greatness and Magnificence of Italian Universities.
 DOI: 10.1163/9789004510289_013

Dessens, Alexander Scott: The Alchemical Order: Reason, Passions, Alchemy and the Social World in the Philosophy And Cosmology of Jean d’Espagnet, West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University, 2022.
 PhD thesis.
 DOI: ​10.25394/PGS.19666323.v1

Strosetzki, Christoph: Gesundheit und Krankheit vor und nach Paracelsus, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2022, 430 pp..
 ISBN: 978-3-658-35327-8

Vries, Lyke de: Reformation, Revolution, Renovation: The Roots and Reception of the Rosicrucian Call for General Reform, Leiden: Brill, 2022 = Universal Reform, v. 3.
 DOI: 10.1163/9789004249394

Articles

Szydło, Zbigniew A.: ‘The beginnings of chemistry: from ancient times until 1661’, in: Pure and Applied Chemistry, 2022.
 DOI: 10.1515/pac-2022-0203

Vries, Lyke de: ‘Protecting Academia and Religion: Andreas Libavius’s Criticism of a General Reformation’, in: Ambix, 69 (2022), no. 1, p. 34-48.
 DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2021.2023962

Moran, Bruce T.: ‘Medical Performance and the Alchemy of Plants in the Ventures of Leonhard Thurneisser zum Thurn’, in: Ambix, 69 (2022), no. 2, p. 95-117.
 DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2022.2042058

Considine, John: ‘The Beginnings of English Paracelsian Lexicography: Two Collections of Words from Elizabethan Cambridge’, in: Ambix, 69 (2022), no. 2, p. 163-189.
 DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2021.2012315

Chapters

Nutton, Vivian: Renaissance Medicine: : A Short History of European Medicine in the Sixteenth Century, Milton Park/New York: Routledge, 2022, ch. 10: Paracelsus and Paracelsianiam.
 DOI: 10.4324/9781003223184
 ISBN: 9781032121239

Suzuki, Rieko: The Shelleys and the Brownings: Textual Re-Imaginings and the Question of Influence, Liverpool UP, 2022 = English Association Monographs: English at the Interface, ch. 1: Frankenstein and Paracelsus (pp. 29-52).
 DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv27zdht6.6