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Scribes of Space: Place in Middle English Literature and Late Medieval Science (2019)

Goldie, Matthew Boyd (Author)

Cornell University Press

ISBN: 9781501734045

Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 312
Language: English

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Physics Theology Geography Natural philosophy Science and literature English language Space Space and time 15th century 14th century 13th century Great Britain Chaucer, Geoffrey Kempe, Margery Henryson, Robert Lydgate, John Bradwardine, Thomas Buridan, Jean Oresme, Nicole Oxford University

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.

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Review Alfred Hiatt (2020) Review of "Scribes of Space: Place in Middle English Literature and Late Medieval Science". Imago Mundi: A Review of Early Cartography (pp. 73-74). unapi

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