Scribes of space : place in Middle English literature and late Medieval science / Matthew Boyd Goldie
- Author
- Goldie, Matthew Boyd
- Published
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Physical Description
- xi, 293 pages ; 24 cm
- Contents
- Local space, edges, and contents : chorography and late medieval English maps -- Local literature : vernacular local space and John Lydgate's Siege of Thebes -- Horizonal space : measuring local area with astrolabes, quadrants, and topographia -- Horizonal and abstracted spaces : The book of Margery Kempe and The book of Sir John Mandeville -- The science of motion : new ideas of impetus and measurement -- Motion in literature : place and movement in The house of fame -- Intense proximate affect : Nicole Oresme's Tractatus de configurationibus qualitatum et motuum -- Proximal literature : nearness and distinction in The legend of good women -- Afterword : being ubiquitous : space and the Pardoner's Prologue and Tale.
- Summary
- "Examines late medieval physics and Middle English literature to reveal how everyday spaces were apprehended in the late Middle Ages"--
- Subject(s)
- To 1500
- English literature—Middle English, 1100-1500—History and criticism
- Place (Philosophy) in literature
- Geographical perception in literature
- Local color in literature
- Physics—England—History—To 1500
- Geographical perception—England—History—To 1500
- English literature—Middle English
- Geographical perception
- Physics
- England
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9781501734045 hardcover ; alkaline paper
1501734040 hardcover ; alkaline paper - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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