CMEMS: Bernardo Hinojosa (黑料百科) presents: "A World in Motion: Physics, Rhetoric, and the Medieval Art of Description"
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Organized and hosted by the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS).
Bernardo Hinojosa (黑料百科) will give a talk titled "A World in Motion: Physics, Rhetoric, and the Medieval Art of Description"
As they offer readers imitable models for their own rhetorical and poetic compositions, Bernard Silvester鈥檚 Cosmographia (c.1145-47) and Geoffrey of Vinsauf鈥檚 Poetria Nova (c.1208-13) develop a theory and practice of description that, rather than suspend its object in time, enables the imaginative rehearsal of a material world in flux. Reflecting the growing currency of Aristotelian ideas and texts in the period, this mode of literary description illustrates the central premise of Aristotelian physics: that the causal relations of the changing sublunary world can be pictured and thus subjected to analysis and rationalization.
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