Unmaking

• Author / Creator

  Legacy, Jessica L

• Unmaking is an allegory of the alchemical process through the tale of a medieval hunt. It combines symbolic alchemical language with the scientific method established in both alchemy and hunting in the medieval and early modern period, and presents this research as a “speculative” historical fiction. That is to say, if the coded procedure present in the manuscripts was the way to achieve alchemy, then Unmaking is what that process might look like.

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Alchemy
  • Rubedo
  • Nigredo
  • Albedo
  • Allegory
  • Medieval
  • Citrinas
  • Unmaking
  • Creative
  • Hunting

• Graduation date

  Spring 2012

• Type of Item

  Thesis

• Degree

  Master of Arts

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3MS71

• License

  This thesis is made available by the University of Alberta Libraries with permission of the copyright owner solely for non-commercial purposes. This thesis, or any portion thereof, may not otherwise be copied or reproduced without the written consent of the copyright owner, except to the extent permitted by Canadian copyright law.