Scribes of Space : Place in Middle English Literature and Late Medieval Science.

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 motuum -- 8. 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.

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