Matthew Boyd Goldie: 2 books
Scribes of Space
Place in Middle English Literature and Late Medieval Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
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...
The Idea of the Antipodes
Place, People, and Voices
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2010
This book will be the first study to focus exclusively on presentations of the antipodes. Taking into account maps, letters, book illustrations, travel writing, poetry, and drama, Goldie reveals that the history of the idea of the antipodes might be seen as different modes or discourses: mathematical...