Keywords:
Civilization, Medieval.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
How did medieval people make sense of their surroundings, and how did this change over the years as understanding and knowledge expanded? This new Seminar Study is designed to familiarise students of medieval history with the ways in which medieval people interpreted the world around them - how they rationalised their observations, and why they developed the models for understanding that they did. Most importantly, it shows how ideas changed over the medieval period, and why. With extensive primary source material, this book builds up a picture using medieval encyclopedias, prose literature and poetry, records of estate management, agricultural treatises, scientific works, annals and chronicles, as well as the evidence from art, architecture, archaeology and the landscape itself. An excellent introduction for undergraduate students of Medieval history, or for anyone with an interest in the medieval natural world.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (212 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781317861508
Series Statement:
Seminar Studies
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=1562522
DDC:
304.2094/0902
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Original Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Publisher's acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and editorial notes -- Chronology -- Who's who -- Glossary -- PART ONE ANALYSIS -- 1 THE NATURE OF THINGS -- 2 UNIVERSAL MODELS -- 3 ON THE HEAVENS -- 4 METEOROLOGY -- 5 IMAGE OF THE WORLD -- 6 MAN AND NATURE -- 7 ON ANIMALS -- 8 ON PLANTS -- 9 ON MINERALS -- 10 THE BOOK OF NATURE -- PART TWO DOCUMENTS -- 1 Psalm 104 (Vulgate Psalm 103) (c. 1000-300 BC) -- 2 Extracts from Plato's Timaeus (c. 360 bc) -- 3 Aristotle's Metaphysics, Bk 5, Ch. 4 on the various meanings of 'nature' (a. 322 bc) -- 4 Physiologus on the partridge (second-fourth century) -- 5 St Augustine of Hippo, De Genesi ad litteram on the relationship between Christian and non-Christian conceptions of the cosmos (a. 430) -- 6 Isidore of Seville, De natura rerum, Ch. 11, 'The elements of the world' (c. 612) -- 7 Extracts from the Qur'an (610-632) -- 8 Al-Jāhiz, Kitāb al-Hayawan on differences between scholarly and popular questioning of natural phenomena (c. 800-850) -- 9 Al-Jāhiz, Kitāb al-Hayawan on the nuisance of flies (c. 800-850) -- 10 Dicuil, Liber de Mensura Orbis Terrae on Iceland (825) -- 11 John Scotus Eriugena, Periphyseon or De divisione naturae, Bk 3, ll. 3257-77, on the structure of the universe (860) -- 12 Captain Buzurg ibn Shahriya of Ramhormuz, Ajaib al-Hind on the hermaphroditic hare (c. 950-1000) -- 13 Avicenna, Danishnama-i 'ala'i on the senses (a. 1037) -- 14 Al-Birunī, Kitāb-al-Saydanah fi't-Tibb on barley (a. 1048) -- 15 Physiologus ascribed to Theobald, abbot of Monte Cassino, 'Concerning the ant' (1022-1085) -- 16 Baudri of Bourgueil, To Countess Adela, ll. 1042-1064 on astronomy (a. 1130) -- 17 Bestiary on the partridge (twelfth century) -- 18 William of Conches, Dragmaticon, Bk 6, Ch. 22 on smell (1147-1149).
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19 Hildegard of Bingen, Physica on gemstones (1151-1158) -- 20 Rabbi Petachia of Ratisbon, Travels on the flying camel (1170-1187) -- 21 Extracts from the Anglo-Norman and French bestiaries of Philippe de Thaon, ll. 307-48 (c. 1120) and Gervaise, ll. 282-304 (c. 1200) concerning the Idrus and the Crocodile -- 22 The Owl: Hugh de Fouilloy's De avibus (c. 1132-11521 and the anonymous The Owl and the Nightingale, ll. 56-100 (late twelfth century) -- 23 Farid al-din 'Attar, Mantiq al-tair on the spider (c. 1130-c. 1229) -- 24 Bartholomew the Englishman, De proprietatibus rerum, Bk 14, Chs 9 and 10 on the mountains of Ethiopia and Mount Etna (a. 1240) -- 25 Gauthier de Metz, The Myrrour of the World, Pt 2, Ch. 4 on Inde (c. 1245) -- 26 Matthew Paris, Historia Anglorum on unseasonable Weather (c. 1274) -- 27 Seneschaucy, Ch. 7 on the duties of the cowherd (a. 1276) -- 28 Albertus Magnus, De natura locorum, ll. 43-62 on planetary influence (a 1280) -- 29 Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus on silver (a. 1280) -- 30 Meteorological observations attributed to Roger Bacon for February 1270 -- 31 Marco Polo, Divisament dou monde, Bk 3, Ch. 9 concerning pygmies (1298) -- 32 Meteorological observations of William Merle (1344) -- 33 Mandeville's Travels on monstrous races (c. 1360) -- 34 Edward of Norwich, The Master of Game on greyhounds (1406-1413) -- 35 The Secrete of Secretes, 'On the condition of Man' (fifteenth century version) -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- PLATES.
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