Abstract: The presence of alchemical imagery in Arthur’s dream vision—imagery which develops across the English chronicle tradition and which is then incorporated into the alliterative and romance traditions—demonstrates that medieval writers were making use of alchemy as a literary motif of transformation for political purpose as early as the appearance of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae.

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他梦见龙：亚瑟王中世纪梦境中的炼金术意象

摘要：亚瑟梦境中炼金术意象的存在——意象跨越英国编年史传统发展，然后被纳入头韵和浪漫传统——表明中世纪作家正在利用炼金术作为政治目的转变的文学主题早在蒙茅斯的 Historia Regum Britanniae 的 Geoffrey 出现时。