Natural and the Supernatural in the Middle Ages

Informationen zum Autor Robert Bartlett is Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Mediaeval History at the University of St Andrews. His previous publications include The Making of Europe (1993), England under the Norman and Angevin Kings (2000) and The Hanged Man (2004). Klappentext This book explores how medieval people categorized the world, concentrating on the division between the natural and the supernatural. Zusammenfassung An exploration of the way in which the world was categorized in the medieval period! concentrating on the division between the natural and the supernatural. This book discusses the mentalities of medieval writers and thinkers and raises the question of how to deal with beliefs we may not share. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The boundaries of the supernatural; 2. 'The machine of this world': ideas of the physical universe; 3. Dogs and dog-heads: the inhabitants of the world; 4. 'The secrets of nature and art': Roger Bacon's Opus maius.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Bartlett
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.03.2008
• EAN: 9780521702553
• ISBN: 978-0-521-70255-3
• No. of pages: 182
• Series: Wiles Lectures
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages