Medieval science in the North : travelling wisdom, 1000-1500 / edited by Christian Etheridge and Michele Campopiano.
This volume brings science in Northern Europe to the centre of the study of medieval intellectual history. Medieval science has become an increasingly popular area of academic interest over the past couple of decades, but much of this work has up to now concentrated on France and the Mediterranean,...
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| Language: | English |
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Turnhout, Belgium :
Brepols,
[2021]
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| Series: | Knowledge, scholarship, and science in the Middle Ages ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Christian Etheridge and Michele Campopiano
- Roger of Hereford and the transformation of Computus in twelfth-century England / C. Philipp E. Nothaft
- Travelling optics : Robert Grosseteste and the optics behind the rainbow / Giles E. M. Gasper, Brian K. Tanner, Sigbørn Sønnesyn, and Nader El-Bizri
- Language and wisdom : mathematics and astronomy in Bacon's edition of the Secretum secretorum / Michele Campopiano
- Wisdom's trips to Denmark / Sten Ebbesen
- Medieval scientific book fragments held in Swedish and Finnish archives : the tantalizing remains of a greater scientific corpus / Christian Etheridge
- Friars of science : Dominican transmission and usage of scientific knowledge in Medieval Scandinavia / Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig Jakobsen
- Master Perus of Arabia : an exemplary magician in Medieval Iceland / Marteinn Helgi Sigurđsson
- Science in Medieval fiction : the case of Konráđ's saga keisarasonar / Florian Schreck
- Continental ironmongers, whalers, smugglers, and craftsmen : immigration and trade routes and their influence on the London armourers' industry / Brad Kirkland.