W G L Randles: 1 book
The Unmaking of the Medieval Christian Cosmos, 1500–1760
From Solid Heavens to Boundless Æther
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
From the early Christian era and throughout the Middle Ages, theologians exerted considerable effort to achieve a synthesis bringing together Greek cosmology and the Creation story in Genesis. In the construction of the medieval Empyrean, the dwelling place of the Blessed, Aristotle’s philosophy...
