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

by Matthew Boyd Goldie

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.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501734040
• ISBN13: 9781501734045
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher