%0 Journal Article
%T Equivocal quintessence. Spiritual Alchemy and counterfeit money in 16th-century Spain
%A Tausiet
%A Mar赤a
%J Asclepio : Revista de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia
%D 2011
%I Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient赤ficas
%X One of the main obsessions of the Early Modern Era was that of determining the notions of true and false, in order to apply them to various fields of knowledge and thus establish the divide between the lawful and the unlawful. This trend was to have a particular impact on the fields of re ligion and science, where it became necessary to distinguish not only between true and false spirits, relics or miracles, but also between genuine and fake astrologers and alchemists. Situated in the middle ground between idealism and materialism, alchemy was prime territory for such tensions, as was demonstrated by a trial held in 1593 at the Jeronymite monastery of Santa Engracia in Saragossa, whose prior accused a friar of making  silver out of smoke and jewels from goblins . Una de las principales obsesiones de la Edad Moderna consisti車 en determinar las nociones de verdadero y falso para aplicarlas a los distintos campos del saber y, de ese modo, fundamentar la separaci車n entre lo l赤cito y lo prohibido. Dicha tendencia iba a afectar especialmente a los terrenos de la religi車n y la ciencia, haci谷ndose necesario distinguir no s車lo verdaderos y falsos esp赤ritus, reliquias o milagros, sino tambi谷n verdaderos y falsos astr車logos y alquimistas. Situada a caballo entre el idealismo y el materialismo, la alquimia ejemplificaba especialmente dichas tensiones, como se comprobar芍 a trav谷s del proceso incoado en 1593 contra un fraile del monasterio jer車nimo de Santa Engracia de Zaragoza, a quien su prior acus車 de fabricar  plata de humo y joyas de trasgos .
%K Alchemy
%K Fraud
%K Counterfeit
%K Silversmith
%K Goblins
%K Trasgos
%K Santa Engracia Monastery
%K Counterfeit coin
%K Alquimia
%K Fraude
%K Falsificaci車n
%K Platero
%K Duendes
%K Trasgos
%K Monasterio de Santa Engracia
%K Moneda falsa
%U http://asclepio.revistas.csic.es/index.php/asclepio/article/view/496/498