How did people of the medieval period explain physical phenomena,
such as eclipses or the distribution of land and water on the
globe? What creatures did they think they might encounter: angels,
devils, witches, dogheaded people? This fascinating book explores
the ways in which medieval people categorized the world,
concentrating on the division between the natural and the
supernatural and showing how the idea of the supernatural came to
be invented in the Middle Ages. Robert Bartlett examines how
theologians and others sought to draw lines between the natural,
the miraculous, the marvelous and the monstrous, and the many
conceptual problems they encountered as they did so. The final
chapter explores the extraordinary thought-world of Roger Bacon as
a case study exemplifying these issues. By recovering the
mentalities of medieval writers and thinkers the book raises the
critical question of how we deal with beliefs we no longer share.
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