Local space, edges, and contents : chorography and late medieval English maps -- Local literature : vernacular local space and John Lydgate's Siege of Thebes -- Horizonal space : measuring local area with astrolabes, quadrants, and topographia -- Horizonal and abstracted spaces : The book of Margery Kempe and The book of Sir John Mandeville -- The science of motion : new ideas of impetus and measurement -- Motion in literature : place and movement in The house of fame -- Intense proximate affect : Nicole Oresme's Tractatus de configurationibus qualitatum et motuum -- Proximal literature : nearness and distinction in The legend of good women -- Afterword : being ubiquitous : space and the Pardoner's Prologue and Tale.
Summary:
"Examines late medieval physics and Middle English literature to reveal how everyday spaces were apprehended in the late Middle Ages"-- Provided by publisher.
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