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Scribes of space : place in Middle English literature and late medieval science / Matthew Boyd Goldie

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2019.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 293 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501734069
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PR275 .S375 2019
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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
Subject: "Examines late medieval physics and Middle English literature to reveal how everyday spaces were apprehended in the late Middle Ages"--
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction PR275.48 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available on1056201637

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

"Examines late medieval physics and Middle English literature to reveal how everyday spaces were apprehended in the late Middle Ages"--

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