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Article: The Sacrificial Body and the Day of Doom: Alchemy and Apocalyptic Discourse in the Protestant Reformation.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- September 22, 2007
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Urszula Szulakowska. The Sacrificial Body and the Day of Doom: Alchemy and Apocalyptic Discourse in the Protestant Reformation.
Leiden: Brill, 2006. xii + 180 pp. + 54 b/w pls. index. illus. bibl. $155. ISBN: 90-04-15025-0.
In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, an extraordinary series of printed books appeared in Protestant cities such as Augsburg, Frankfurt, and Strassburg. Illustrated with symbolic engravings, these books constructed a complicated rhetoric out of a blend of alchemy, Paracelsian theosophy, Hermeticism, and Christian Kabbalah. In The Sacrificial Body and the Day of Doom, Urszula Szulakowska examines these images and the ...