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Michèle Mertens

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ID1085422
NAMEMichèle Mertens
GIVEN NAMESMichèle
FAMILY NAMEMertens
SIGNATUREMERTENS M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Liège
ORCID0000-0003-2448-0590
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX0
  • Anthropocenic Affects and Ethics in Aaron Thier's Mr. Eternity

    Michèle Mertens, Mahlu Mertens•ARTICLE•American imago•2020

    Anthropocenic Affects and Ethics in Aaron Thier's Mr. Eternity Mahlu Mertens (bio) Introduction In the discourse on ecological mourning, "the vulnerabilities [of marginalized groups] to climatic and environmental change" and the resulting ecological grief are often ignored or absent, because, as Ashlee Cunsolo points out, these marginalized bodies "do not usually matter within policy and discourse" (2017, p. 181). Similarly most climate change fi…

  • Contemporary Fiction vs. the Challenge of Imagining the Timescale of Climate Change

    Michèle Mertens, Mahlu Mertens et al.•ARTICLE•Studies in the novel•2018

    Fiction writers who try to do justice to the vast temporal and spatial scales and the enormous complexity of climate change are faced with the problem that the phenomenon exceeds human perception and that it is not dramatic in the traditional sense. In this article we explore the formal challenges that arise when fiction takes on the temporality of climate change by examining three very different novels that seek to capture the geological timesca…

  • Zosimus, alchemist

    Open Access•Michèle Mertens•CHAPTER•The Encyclopedia of Ancient History•2012

    Born in Panopolis (present‐day Akhmim) in Upper Egypt, Zosimus ( fl . ca. 300 Suda) appears to be the foremost figure of Greco‐Egyptian alchemy, to which he added a deep mystical dimension. Towards the end of the third century and the beginning of the fourth, he wrote a substantial work in Greek, of which only tiny portions have survived.

  • The Alchemical Corpus Attributed to Raymond Lull. Michela Pereira

    Michèle Mertens•ARTICLE•Isis•1991

  • Pourquoi Isis est-elle appelée προφήτις

    Michèle Mertens•ARTICLE•Chronique d Egypte•1989

  • Une scène d'initiation alchimique

    Michèle Mertens•ARTICLE•Revue de l histoire des religions•1988

    An Instance of alchemical Initiation : the « Letter of Isis to Horus » In keeping with the practices customary in occult sciences during the first centuries AD, the short alchemical Greek treatise known as the "Letter of Isis to Horus" presents the secret recipe for the preparation of gold and silver as the result of an act of revelation. A number of themes characterizing late minor literature can be detected in it : initiation in exchange for a …

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  • Une scène d'initiation alchimique

    Michèle Mertens•ARTICLE•Revue de l histoire des religions•1988

    An Instance of alchemical Initiation : the « Letter of Isis to Horus » In keeping with the practices customary in occult sciences during the first centuries AD, the short alchemical Greek treatise known as the "Letter of Isis to Horus" presents the secret recipe for the preparation of gold and silver as the result of an act of revelation. A number of themes characterizing late minor literature can be detected in it : initiation in exchange for a …

  • Pourquoi Isis est-elle appelée προφήτις

    Michèle Mertens•ARTICLE•Chronique d Egypte•1989

  • The Alchemical Corpus Attributed to Raymond Lull. Michela Pereira

    Michèle Mertens•ARTICLE•Isis•1991

  • Zosimus, alchemist

    Open Access•Michèle Mertens•CHAPTER•The Encyclopedia of Ancient History•2012

    Born in Panopolis (present‐day Akhmim) in Upper Egypt, Zosimus ( fl . ca. 300 Suda) appears to be the foremost figure of Greco‐Egyptian alchemy, to which he added a deep mystical dimension. Towards the end of the third century and the beginning of the fourth, he wrote a substantial work in Greek, of which only tiny portions have survived.

  • Contemporary Fiction vs. the Challenge of Imagining the Timescale of Climate Change

    Michèle Mertens, Mahlu Mertens et al.•ARTICLE•Studies in the novel•2018

    Fiction writers who try to do justice to the vast temporal and spatial scales and the enormous complexity of climate change are faced with the problem that the phenomenon exceeds human perception and that it is not dramatic in the traditional sense. In this article we explore the formal challenges that arise when fiction takes on the temporality of climate change by examining three very different novels that seek to capture the geological timesca…

  • Anthropocenic Affects and Ethics in Aaron Thier's Mr. Eternity

    Michèle Mertens, Mahlu Mertens•ARTICLE•American imago•2020

    Anthropocenic Affects and Ethics in Aaron Thier's Mr. Eternity Mahlu Mertens (bio) Introduction In the discourse on ecological mourning, "the vulnerabilities [of marginalized groups] to climatic and environmental change" and the resulting ecological grief are often ignored or absent, because, as Ashlee Cunsolo points out, these marginalized bodies "do not usually matter within policy and discourse" (2017, p. 181). Similarly most climate change fi…

Philosophy (5 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Alchemy (3 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (2 works) · Anthropocene (2 works) · Art history (2 works)

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