Bruce Janacek
Biographic Data
| ID | 1003760 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce Janacek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce |
| FAMILY NAME | Janacek |
| SIGNATURE | JANACEK B |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Central College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Mike A. Zuber. Spiritual Alchemy: From Jacob Boehme to Mary Anne Atwood
Bridging Traditions: Alchemy, Chemistry, and Paracelsian Practices in the Early Modern Era
Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire
Curiosity and Wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (review)
Reviewed by: Curiosity and Wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment Bruce Janacek (bio) Curiosity and Wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Edited by R. J. W. Evans and Alexander Marr. Aldershot, Hants., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. xvi+265. $99.95. A number of sophisticated monographs about curiosity and wonder have already been published, but in this collection of essays R. J. W. Evans and Alexander Marr bring tog…
A Virtuoso's History: Antiquarianism and the Transmission of Knowledge in the Alchemical Studies of Elias Ashmole
This article examines how the seventeenth-century antiquary, Elias Ashmole (1617-1692) used antiquarian techniques to demonstrate the historical veracity of alchemy. Ashmole published three alchemical volumes and collected thousands of pages of alchemical manuscripts. He also wrote several antiquarian treatises and collected manuscripts and printed volumes on astrology, political and ecclesiastical history, heraldry, medicine, devotional treatise…
Paracelsian Moments: Science, Medicine, and Astrology in Early Modern Europe
Gerhild Scholz Williams and Charles D. GunnoeJr. , eds. Paracelsian Moments: Science, Medicine, and Astrology in Early Modern Europe. Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2002. xxii + 274 pp. index. illus. bibl. 34.95 (pbk). ISBN: 1-931112-12-6 (cl), 1-931112-11-8 (pbk). - Volume 57 Issue 1
Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy
From the Royal to the Republican Body: Incorporating the Political in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France
In this innovative volume, leading scholars examine the role of the body as a primary site of political signification in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France. Some essays focus on the sacralization of the king's body through a gendered textual and visual rhetoric. Others show how the monarchy mastered subjects' minds by disciplining the body through dance, music, drama, art, and social rituals. The last essays in the volume focus on the unm…
Thomas Tymme and Natural Philosophy: Prophecy, Alchemical Theology, and the Book of Nature
Prophecy was a major theme in the early published writings of the English clergyman Thomas Tymme (d. 1620). However, at the beginning of the seventeenth century, Tymme replaces his prophetic writings with Paracelsian alchemical studies. This article suggests that a relationship existed between prophetic and devotional literature and Tymme's alchemical studies, and places Tymme's Paracelsian alchemical studies within the larger context of his devo…
Faith, Medical Alchemy, and Natural Philosophy: Johann Moriaen, Reformed Intelligencer, and the Hartlib Circle
Part 1 Johann Moriaen - a bibliographical sketch: servant of the church - origins and upbringing under the cross mystics and utopists Wanderjahre servant of God - in a free country Moriaen and the Jews technological exchanges the godly entrepreneur an intelligence's ethos - public and private without partialities - the Irenic ideal. Part 2 Universal wisdom: panaceas of the soul - Comenius and the dream of universal knowledge origins of the Pansop…
Writing Cogito: Montaigne, Descartes, and the Institution of the Modern Subject
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Writing Cogito: Montaigne, Descartes, and the Institution of the Modern Subject
From the Royal to the Republican Body: Incorporating the Political in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France
In this innovative volume, leading scholars examine the role of the body as a primary site of political signification in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France. Some essays focus on the sacralization of the king's body through a gendered textual and visual rhetoric. Others show how the monarchy mastered subjects' minds by disciplining the body through dance, music, drama, art, and social rituals. The last essays in the volume focus on the unm…
Thomas Tymme and Natural Philosophy: Prophecy, Alchemical Theology, and the Book of Nature
Prophecy was a major theme in the early published writings of the English clergyman Thomas Tymme (d. 1620). However, at the beginning of the seventeenth century, Tymme replaces his prophetic writings with Paracelsian alchemical studies. This article suggests that a relationship existed between prophetic and devotional literature and Tymme's alchemical studies, and places Tymme's Paracelsian alchemical studies within the larger context of his devo…
Faith, Medical Alchemy, and Natural Philosophy: Johann Moriaen, Reformed Intelligencer, and the Hartlib Circle
Part 1 Johann Moriaen - a bibliographical sketch: servant of the church - origins and upbringing under the cross mystics and utopists Wanderjahre servant of God - in a free country Moriaen and the Jews technological exchanges the godly entrepreneur an intelligence's ethos - public and private without partialities - the Irenic ideal. Part 2 Universal wisdom: panaceas of the soul - Comenius and the dream of universal knowledge origins of the Pansop…
Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy
Paracelsian Moments: Science, Medicine, and Astrology in Early Modern Europe
Gerhild Scholz Williams and Charles D. GunnoeJr. , eds. Paracelsian Moments: Science, Medicine, and Astrology in Early Modern Europe. Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2002. xxii + 274 pp. index. illus. bibl. 34.95 (pbk). ISBN: 1-931112-12-6 (cl), 1-931112-11-8 (pbk). - Volume 57 Issue 1
A Virtuoso's History: Antiquarianism and the Transmission of Knowledge in the Alchemical Studies of Elias Ashmole
This article examines how the seventeenth-century antiquary, Elias Ashmole (1617-1692) used antiquarian techniques to demonstrate the historical veracity of alchemy. Ashmole published three alchemical volumes and collected thousands of pages of alchemical manuscripts. He also wrote several antiquarian treatises and collected manuscripts and printed volumes on astrology, political and ecclesiastical history, heraldry, medicine, devotional treatise…
Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire
Curiosity and Wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (review)
Reviewed by: Curiosity and Wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment Bruce Janacek (bio) Curiosity and Wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Edited by R. J. W. Evans and Alexander Marr. Aldershot, Hants., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. xvi+265. $99.95. A number of sophisticated monographs about curiosity and wonder have already been published, but in this collection of essays R. J. W. Evans and Alexander Marr bring tog…
Bridging Traditions: Alchemy, Chemistry, and Paracelsian Practices in the Early Modern Era
Mike A. Zuber. Spiritual Alchemy: From Jacob Boehme to Mary Anne Atwood
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