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Scribes of Space
2019
Overview
Scribes of Space posits that the conception of space-the everyday physical areas we perceive and through which we move-underwent critical transformations between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. Matthew Boyd Goldie examines how natural philosophers, theologians, poets, and other thinkers in late medieval Britain altered the ideas about geographical space they inherited from the ancient world.
In tracing the causes and nature of these developments, and how geographical space was consequently understood, Goldie focuses on the intersection of medieval science, theology, and literature, deftly bringing a wide range of writings-scientific works by Nicole Oresme, Jean Buridan, the Merton School of Oxford Calculators, and Thomas Bradwardine; spiritual, poetic, and travel writings by John Lydgate, Robert Henryson, Margery Kempe, the Mandeville author, and Geoffrey Chaucer-into conversation. This pairing of physics and literature uncovers how the understanding of spatial boundaries, locality, elevation, motion, and proximity shifted across time, signaling the emergence of a new spatial imagination during this era.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Subject
/ ENGLAND
/ English literature-Middle English, 1100-1500-History and criticism
/ Geographical perception in literature
/ History
/ History of Science & Technology
/ LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval
/ Medieval
/ MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE STUDIES
/ Physics
/ Place (Philosophy) in literature
/ SCIENCE
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography
/ To 1500
ISBN
1501734040, 9781501734045, 1501734059, 9781501734052, 9781501734069, 1501734067
