Aspects of Knowledge: Preserving and Reinventing Traditions of Learning in the Middle Ages

by Hugh Magennis

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719097843
• ISBN13: 9780719097843
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.6"