Goldie, Matthew Boyd, <br/><br/>
Scribes of space :  place in Middle English literature and late medieval science / 
Matthew Boyd Goldie 
 - Ithaca :  Cornell University Press,  (c)2019. 
 - 1 online resource (xi, 293 pages) 
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<br/><br/>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 
<br/><br/> "Examines late medieval physics and Middle English literature to reveal how everyday spaces were apprehended in the late Middle Ages"-- 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781501734069 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2018047128 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English literature--History and criticism.--Middle English, 1100-1500<br/>Place (Philosophy) in literature.<br/>Geographical perception in literature.<br/>Local color in literature.<br/>Physics--History--England--To 1500.<br/>Geographical perception--History--England--To 1500.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR275  / .S375 2019