Erscheint: November 2026
Buch (Hardcover): Fachbuch
The Palgrave Handbook of Medieval Literature and Science
Verlag:
Springer Verlag Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35015251
EAN: 9783032263377
Erscheint: November 2026
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Beschreibung
‘This magnificent panoply of thirty-four essays by a distinguished cast of contributors reminds one of the ambition with which medieval and Renaissance encyclopaedists brought together vast amounts of information within a single work. The range of topics covered is impressive indeed, as is the fact that materials in both Latin and several vernaculars are given ample space, thereby ensuring that diverse sources of knowledge are respected. The writing is cogent, accessible, and appealing. Each chapter offers a significant scholarly contribution in its own right, while opening the door to further study of the given subject. This collection is set fair to be the initial go-to volume for anyone interested in the many intersections of medieval literature and science. ’ — Alastair Minnis. , Douglas Tracy Smith Professor Emeritus of English, Yale University, USA. This handbook presents a comprehensive series of originally commissioned essays exploring how key topics in natural philosophy and related discourses (what we now call ‘science’) from the early medieval period to the fifteenth century were reflected, refracted, and transformed by writers in the Middle Ages working within a range of genres from heroic verse, maxim, and riddle to romance, dream vision, moral tale, and allegory. The volume spans the fields of astronomy, astrology, and cosmology; physics, mathematics, and metaphysics; geography and meteorology; flora, fauna, and the natural world; and the human body, mind, and medicine. Each section commences with contextual essays by specialists in these disciplines, exploring the key concepts, sources, and influences that comprise medieval scientia. —the knowledge or understanding acquired by study. Subsequent chapters consider medieval science’s transmission, interpretation, transformation, and recirculation in literary genres and texts from the early medieval period to the fifteenth century. The volume also includes individual case studies treating key authors. While the focus is on English literature and thought, this is situated within a wider international context of cultural exchange, taking account of the classical inheritance, Germanic and Scandinavian traditions, medieval European intellectual culture, and the transmission of knowledge from the Islamic world. In illuminating the ways in which medieval attitudes to science challenge traditional divisions and binaries, and the creative means in which writers across genres drew on ideas related to science and natural philosophy to shape their work, the volume resonates with contemporary ideas concerning the dynamic relationship of human and natural worlds, the nature of embodied being in the world, and the fluidity of animal and human, body and mind, human and technology. Michael J. Huxtable. is Assistant Professor of Medieval Literature in the Department of English Studies, Durham University, UK. Corinne Saunders. is. Professor of Medieval Literature in the Department of English Studies, Durham University, UK.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Michael J. Huxtable
- Corinne Saunders
Zielgruppe
- Research
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2027
Format
- Buch (Hardcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 248