Recent Publications on Paracelsus and Paracelsianism

2021

Books

Nova Acta Paracelsica: Neue Folge 29, Bern: Peter Lang, 2021.

Schmid, Eva-Isabel: Paracelsus - Die Fragen der Toten: Historischer Roman, München: Piper, 2021, pp. 366 pp..
 ISBN: 978-3-492-50421-8

Haaning, Aksel: Naturens lys, vol. 2: Fra Paracelsus' nybrud til Descartes' drøm, København: Virkelig, 2021, pp. 259 pp..

Kodera, Sergius: Nahkampf und Fernheilung: Sir Kenelm Digbys sympathisches Pulver zwischen Paracelsischer Medizin, adeligem Duell und literarischer Fiktion, Hannover: Wehrhahn, 2021 = Neue Perspektiven der Frühneuzeitforschung, v. 5, pp. 74 pp..
 ISBN: 978-3-86525-857-1

Stolberg, Michael: Gelehrte Medizin und ärztlicher Alltag in der RenaissanceBerlin/Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , pp. 354-366: Paracelsismus und chymische Arzneimittel.
 DOI: 10.1515/9783110707380

Johann Valentin Andreae und die Rosenkreuzer: Studien zu Werk und Kontext, ed. by Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann and Volkhard Wels, Stuttgart: frommann-holzboog, 2021 = problemata, v. 164, pp. 236 pp..

Wels, Volkhard: ‘Rätsel und Verrätselungen in der Chymischen Hochzeit’, in: Johann Valentin Andreae und die Rosenkreuzer: Studien zu Werk und Kontext, ed. by Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann and Volkhard Wels, Stuttgart: frommann-holzboog, 2021 = problemata, v. 164.

Brandl, Simon: ‘"Alchemia rhodo-staurotica"?: Paracelsistische Theoalchemie in Daniel Möglings Speculum sophicum rhodo-stauroticum’, in: Johann Valentin Andreae und die Rosenkreuzer: Studien zu Werk und Kontext, ed. by Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann and Volkhard Wels, Stuttgart: frommann-holzboog, 2021 = problemata, v. 164.

Kahn, Didier: ‘The Alchemical Miscarriage, or the Vales of Secrets of the Divine Wisdom’, in: Johann Valentin Andreae und die Rosenkreuzer: Studien zu Werk und Kontext, ed. by Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann and Volkhard Wels, Stuttgart: frommann-holzboog, 2021 = problemata, v. 164.

Brandl, Simon: Mystik und Magie im Frühparacelsismus: Erkundungen um Alexander von Suchtens Traktat De tribus facultatibus, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2021 = Frühe Neuzeit, v. 239.
 DOI: 10.1515/9783110719727

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

Plancq, Adrien: Contribution à l’étude des apports de Paracelse (1493-1541) dans le domaine de la santé, thèse d'exercise, Pharmacie, Caen.
 Online: https://www.sudoc.fr/262503085

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

Leprêtre, Matti: ‘Paracelsus, His Herbarius, and the Relevance of Medicinal Herbs in His Medical Thought’, in: Daphnis, 49 (2021), no. 3, p. 324-378.
 DOI: 10.1163/18796583-12340023

Michaleas, Spyros N. / Konstantinos Laios / Gregory Tsoucalas / Georges Androutsos: ‘Theophrastus Bombastus Von Hohenheim (Paracelsus) (1493–1541): The eminent physician and pioneer of toxicology’, in: Toxicology Reports, 8 (2021), p. 411-414.
 DOI: 10.1016/j.toxrep.2021.02.012

Chapters

Gehr, Damaris Aschera: ‘Magie und Alchemie in der paracelsistischen Schrift ארבעתאל Arbatel De magia veterum (Basel, 1575)’, in: Alchemie – Genealogie und Terminologie, Bilder, Techniken und Artefakte: Forschungen aus der Herzog August Bibliothek, ed. by Petra Feuerstein-Herz and Ute Frietsch, Wolfenbüttel: Herzog August Bibliothek, 2021 = Wolfenbütteler Forschungen, v. 166, pp. 49-74.

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

Paolella, Alfonso: ‘The 'Mal Franzoso' Between Art, History, and Literature: Paracelsus and Della Porta’, in: Disease and Disability in Medieval and Early Modern Art and Literature, ed. by Rinaldo F. Canalis and Massimo Ciavolella, Turnhout: Brepols, 2021 = Cursor mundi, v. 38, pp. 263-281.
 DOI: 10.1484/M.CURSOR-EB.5.121933

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, PhD thesis, West Lafayette, Indiana, Purdue University.
 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

Nolle, Heinrich: Parergi Philosophici Speculum: Spiegel des chymischen Parergon (1623), ed. by Jost Eickmeyer, Simon Brandl and Volkhard Wels, Stuttgart: frommann-holzboog, 2022.

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

Papanikolaou, Elli: ‘Theophrastus Paracelsus von Hohenheim: His Corpuscular Theory and the Spread of Paracelsianism’, in: Athens Journal of History, 8 (2022), no. 1, p. 59-80.
 DOI: 10.30958/ajhis.8-1-3

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

Madarász, Bálint: ‘Paradigmaváltás az orvoslásban - Paracelsus: A iatrokémia megjelenése a medicinában’, in: Paradigmaváltás a tudományok, a technika és az orvoslás körében, Budapest: Magyar Természettudományi Társulat, 2022, pp. 108-120.
 DOI: 10.23716/MTTT.5.2022.10