This edited collection explores how knowledge was preserved and reinvented in the Middle Ages. Rather than focusing on a historical period or specific cultural and historical events, it eschews traditional categories of periodisation and discipline, establishing connections and cross-sections between different departments of knowledge. The essays cover the period from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries, examining the history of science (computus, prognostication), the history of art, literature, theology (homilies, prayers, hagiography, contemplative texts), music, historiography and geography.

Aspects of knowledge is aimed at an academic readership, including advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as specialists in medieval literature, history of science, history of knowledge, geography, theology, music, philosophy, intellectual history, history of language and material culture.

About the Author

Marilina Cesario is Senior Lecturer in the Earliest English Writings and Historical Linguistics at Queen's University, Belfast

Hugh Magennis is Professor Emeritus in Old English at Queen's University, Belfast

Book Information
ISBN 9780719097843
Author Marilina Cesario
Format Hardback
Page Count 296
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publisher Manchester University Press
Weight(grams) 526g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm * 21mm