- Description
- 1 online resource.
- Summary
- "Examines late medieval physics and Middle English literature to reveal how everyday spaces were apprehended in the late Middle Ages"--
- Uniform Title
- Scribes of space (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Scribes of space (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781501734052
- LCCN
- 2018047128
- OCLC
- ssj0002117882
- Author
Goldie, Matthew Boyd.
- Title
Scribes of space [electronic resource] : place in Middle English literature and late medieval science / Matthew Boyd Goldie.
- Imprint
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Note
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
- Connect to:
- Other Form:
Print version: Goldie, Matthew Boyd, author. Scribes of space Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019 9781501734045 (DLC) 2018029904