Scribes of Space (English, Matthew Boyd Goldie)

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Scribes of Space 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 . 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. In tracing the causes and nature of these de…

ISBN: 9781501734045