{"product_id":"scribes-of-space-place-in-middle-english-literature-and-late-medieval-science-hardback-9781501734045","title":"Scribes of Space; Place in Middle English Literature and Late Medieval Science (Hardback) 9781501734045","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eScribes of Space\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePlace in Middle English Literature and Late Medieval Science\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMatthew Boyd Goldie (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501734045\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 March 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e312 pages, 11 b\u0026amp;w halftones - 11 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eA wide, precise, and fascinating tour of ideas of space, motion, and measurement, interleaved with readings of literature (Chaucer, Margery Kempe, Mandeville, Lydgate, Henryson) considered in terms of these and other spatial ideas. The author shows how the 14th century combined traditional ideas of movement toward 'natural place' with the new idea of \u003ci\u003eimpetus\u003c\/i\u003e; how new and old notions of horizon interacted; and how challenges to Aristotelean physics produced the first graphs charting variable velocity.... The readings of local maps offer good ways to approach any historical map, and the analysis of the portrait of Lydgate joining the Canterbury pilgrims, found in one medieval copy of Lydgate's 'addition' to \u003ci\u003eThe Canterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e, is a model for analyzing art at the dawn of perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e (Choice) \u003cp\u003eAn exceptionally spacious study... that focuses, with acute particularism, on premodern mentalities and material conditions in place, yielding insights into several literary landscapes.... \u003ci\u003eScribes of Space\u003c\/i\u003e is a most welcome contribution to the study of medieval practices of space, articulating a cogent view of emplacement across various media and modalities. It is also a substantial and rewarding addition to the ongoing 'scientific turn' in medieval literary studies, expertly navigating medieval physics, geography, practical geometry, and poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e (Studies in the Age of Chaucer) \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eScribes of Space\u003c\/i\u003e does more than evince Goldie's erudition and wide-ranging interests; it evinces the need to understand the innovations of medieval scientific and mechanical knowledge as representative of an evolving understanding of the human mind.\u003c\/p\u003e - Lynn Staley, Colgate University (SPECULUM) \u003cp\u003eGoldie discerns a unique, if rarely encountered, sense of space in some medieval texts...An impressive volume that deserves to be carefully studied by those interested in literary history, early science, physics, and ancient history as it is grounded in the works of both Aristotle and Ptolemy.\u003c\/p\u003e - Cliff Cunningham, University of Southern Queensland (Sun News Tucson) \u003cp\u003eIn just over two hundred pages, Goldie offers a richly capacious and wide-ranging account of late medieval ideas of space... \u003ci\u003eScribes of Space\u003c\/i\u003e is a rich and fascinating study; if we have indeed returned to the \"spatial turn,\" on the evidence of Goldie's excellent book, there is much that remain to be learned.\u003c\/p\u003e (Journal of British Studies)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eScribes of Space\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e 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\u003c\/b\u003e. 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eIntroduction: Late Medieval Space\u003cbr\u003e 1. Local Space, Edges, and Contents: Chorography and Late Medieval English Maps\u003cbr\u003e 2. Local Literature: Vernacular Local Space and John Lydgate's\u003ci\u003e Siege of Thebes\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e3. Horizonal Space: Measuring Local Area with Astrolabes, Quadrants, and \u003ci\u003eTopographia\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e4. Horizonal and Abstracted Spaces: \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Margery Kempe \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Book of Sir John Mandeville\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e5. The Science of Motion: New Ideas of Impetus and Measurement\u003cbr\u003e 6. Motion in Literature: Place and Movement in \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eHouse of Fame\u003cbr\u003e 7. Intense Proximate Affect: Nicole Oresme's Tractatus de configurationibus qualitatum et motuum\u003cbr\u003e 8. Proximal Literature: Nearness and Distinction in the Legend of Good Women\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAfterword: Ubiquitous Being in the Pardoner's Prologue and Tale\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685348864280,"sku":"9781501734045","price":42.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/scribes-of-space-place-in-middle-english-literature-and-late-medieval-science-hardback-9781501734045","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}