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Scribes of Space : Area in Middle English Literature and Late Medieval Science.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2019.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Scribes of Space; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Late Medieval Space; 1. Local Space, Edges, and Contents: Chorography and Late Medieval English Maps; 2. Local Literature: Vernacular Local Space and John Lydgate's Siege of Thebes; 3. Horizonal Space: Measuring Local Area with Astrolabes, Quadrants, and Topographia; 4. Horizonal and Abstracted Spaces: The Book of Margery Kempe and The Book of Sir John Mandeville; 5. The Science of Motion: New Ideas of Impetus and Measurement; 6. Motion in Literature: Place and Movement in the House of Fame
- 7. Intense Proximate Affect: Nicole Oresme's Tractatus de configurationibus qualitatum et motuum8. Proximal Literature: Nearness and Distinction in the Legend of Good Women; Afterword: Ubiquitous Being in the Pardoner's Prologue and Tale; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z