Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England
by
Katherine Eggert
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
"Disknowledge": knowing something isn't true, but believing it anyway. In Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England, Katherine Eggert explores the crumbling state of learning in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Even as the shortcomings of Renaissance...