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
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.
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