Scribes of Space: Place in Middle English Literature and Late Medieval Science.
- Author / Editor
- Goldie, Matthew Boyd.
Scribes of Space: Place in Middle English Literature and Late Medieval Science.
- Published
- Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019.
- Physical Description
- xi, 293 pp.
- Description
- Explores how philosophers, theologians, poets, and other thinkers in late medieval England altered ancient ideas of geographical space. Analyzes medieval science, theology, literature, and maps, and the "relationship between high science and high literature" of the Middle Ages. Looks at the “science of motion” in HF and ideas of “local space” in PrT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
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