Indisknowledge literature alchemy and the end of humanism in renaissance england katherine eggert explores the crumbling state of learning in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Disknowledge literature alchemy and the end of humanism in renaissance england english edition ebook eggert katherine amazonde kindle shop. Italicdisknowledge literature alchemy and the end of humanism in renaissance england italic by katherine eggert philadelphia university of pennsylvania press 2015 368 pp 5500. Disknowledge and the end of humanism in renaissance england publisher eggert is fully alive to the duplicity of alchemy and its claims times literary supplement an unusually wide ranging and original book written with real stylistic flair eggert shows how alchemy as both a discourse and a set of knowledge practices illuminates problems in many different domains from . Disknowledge literature alchemy and the end of humanism in renaissance england is well written it is intelligent and it is interesting to read yet for this reader at least the sweeping argument proposed is not effectively vindicated by the evidence adduced to support it and the term disknowledge itself does not seem warranted however scholars of early modern english literature may