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Format: 1 online resource (308 pages) : , illustrations

ISBN: 9781501734069 (e-book)

Additional Edition: Print version: Goldie, Matthew Boyd. Scribes of space : place in Middle English literature and late medieval science. Ithaca, New York ; London : Cornell University Press, 2019 ISBN 9781501734052

Language: English

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Format: xi, 293 Seiten : , Illustrationen, Karten.

ISBN: 978-1-5017-3404-5

Content: "Examines late medieval physics and Middle English literature to reveal how everyday spaces were apprehended in the late Middle Ages"...

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, epub mobi ISBN 978-1-5017-3405-2

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, pdf ISBN 978-1-5017-3406-9

Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Mittelenglisch ; Literatur ; Raum ; Aufsatzsammlung

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ISBN: 9781501734069

Content: 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.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , List of Illustrations -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction: Late Medieval Space -- , 1. Local Space, Edges, and Contents: Chorography and Late Medieval English Maps -- , 2. Local Literature: Vernacular Local Space and John Lydgate’s Siege of Thebes -- , 3. Horizonal Space: Measuring Local Area with Astrolabes, Quadrants, and Topographia -- , 4. Horizonal and Abstracted Spaces: The Book of Margery Kempe and The Book of Sir John Mandeville -- , 5. The Science of Motion: New Ideas of Impetus and Measurement -- , 6. Motion in Literature: Place and Movement in the House of Fame -- , 7. Intense Proximate Affect: Nicole Oresme’s Tractatus de configurationibus qualitatum et motuum -- , 8. Proximal Literature: Nearness and Distinction in the Legend of Good Women -- , Afterword: Ubiquitous Being in the Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.7591/9781501734069

URL: https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501734069

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 293 Seiten) , Illustrationen

ISBN: 9781501734069 , 9781501734052

Content: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Late Medieval Space -- 1. Local Space, Edges, and Contents: Chorography and Late Medieval English Maps -- 2. Local Literature: Vernacular Local Space and John Lydgate’s Siege of Thebes -- 3. Horizonal Space: Measuring Local Area with Astrolabes, Quadrants, and Topographia -- 4. Horizonal and Abstracted Spaces: The Book of Margery Kempe and The Book of Sir John Mandeville -- 5. The Science of Motion: New Ideas of Impetus and Measurement -- 6. Motion in Literature: Place and Movement in the House of Fame -- 7. Intense Proximate Affect: Nicole Oresme’s Tractatus de configurationibus qualitatum et motuum -- 8. Proximal Literature: Nearness and Distinction in the Legend of Good Women -- Afterword: Ubiquitous Being in the Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Content: 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

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

Additional Edition: ISBN 9781501734045

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Goldie, Matthew Boyd, 1965 - Scribes of space Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019 ISBN 9781501734045

Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Literatur ; Mittelenglisch ; Raum ; Umweltwahrnehmung ; Geschichte 1200-1500 ; Aufsatzsammlung

DOI: 10.7591/9781501734069

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