Research paper on Alchemy
Reade Green ENG 460 Jeremy Glazier 05.05.2018 Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale and Alchemy Geoffrey Chaucer. One of the greatest writers of his time and possibly all of time. He wrote some amazing classics but none in comparison to his most famous book of stories The Canterbury Tales . In the book there are numerous people who go on a journey from one town to the next and throughout the journey, each of them tells a story. All the stories are split up into different fragments with quite some being in one and also different genres of the stories. All of the characters in the stories are mentioned at the beginning in the general prologue which provides a bio for all the characters. Though rather two that do not appear in the general prologue are the Canon or his Yeoman. A Canon, back in Chaucer’s day was what today’s historians would consider a scientist or a chemist. But back then, a canon was a scientist who studied and practiced something called alchemy. Alchemy as defined by those wh...