The essays in this collection are attempts to understand medieval aesthetic principles and products, not to champion the numerical approach. All the essays share a confidence that when Chaucer, for example, wrote alle thynges been ordeyned and nombred, he was enuciating a philosophical and aesthetic principle of fundamental importance to medieval thought.
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The essays in this collection are attempts to understand medieval aesthetic principles and products, not to champion the numerical approach. All the essays share a confidence that when Chaucer, for example, wrote alle thynges been ordeyned and nombred, he was enuciating a philosophical and aesthetic principle of fundamental importance to medieval thought.
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Edited by Eckhardt. "Medieval cosmology is mathematical in its conception [and] the rhetoric of numbers permeates all areas of medieval learning."--Hardcover. Condition: very good minus (few early pages hi-lited) with very good dust jacket. ISBN 0838720196.