Aspects of knowledge

<p>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 (<i>computus</i> prognostication) the history of art literature theology (homilies prayers hagiography contemplative texts) music historiography and geography. <br><br><i>Aspects of knowledge </i>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.</p>