LEADER 03990nam 2200613 450 001 9910467192903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-5017-3406-7 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501734069 035 $a(CKB)4100000007655076 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5710013 035 $a(OCoLC)1056201637 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse73451 035 $a(DE-B1597)503358 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501734069 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5710013 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11655840 035 $a(OCoLC)1088347597 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007655076 100 $a20190305d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aScribes of space $eplace in Middle English literature and late medieval science /$fMatthew Boyd Goldie 210 1$aIthaca, New York ;$aLondon :$cCornell University Press,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (308 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a1-5017-3405-9 311 $a1-5017-3404-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tList of Illustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: Late Medieval Space -- $t1. Local Space, Edges, and Contents: Chorography and Late Medieval English Maps -- $t2. Local Literature: Vernacular Local Space and John Lydgate's Siege of Thebes -- $t3. Horizonal Space: Measuring Local Area with Astrolabes, Quadrants, and Topographia -- $t4. Horizonal and Abstracted Spaces: The Book of Margery Kempe and The Book of Sir John Mandeville -- $t5. The Science of Motion: New Ideas of Impetus and Measurement -- $t6. Motion in Literature: Place and Movement in the House of Fame -- $t7. Intense Proximate Affect: Nicole Oresme's Tractatus de configurationibus qualitatum et motuum -- $t8. Proximal Literature: Nearness and Distinction in the Legend of Good Women -- $tAfterword: Ubiquitous Being in the Pardoner's Prologue and Tale -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aScribes 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. 606 $aEnglish literature$yMiddle English, 1100-1500$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPlace (Philosophy) in literature 606 $aGeographical perception in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aancient world. 610 $ageographical space. 610 $alate medieval Britain. 610 $aphysics and literature. 610 $aspatial imagination. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPlace (Philosophy) in literature. 615 0$aGeographical perception in literature. 676 $a820.9001 700 $aGoldie$b Matthew Boyd$0992240 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910467192903321 996 $aScribes of space$92464234 997 $aUNINA