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Title: Science and literature in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884
Subjects: Middle Ages Renaissance Science, Medieval Literature, Medieval
Publisher: London : Bickers and Son
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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ius Mela, &c., which had been studiedafter the original texts in the schools of Athens and Alexandria, and theseSyriac translations were afterwards retranslated into Arabic, when theCaliphs, successors of Mahomet, had founded Mussidman schools in thecoimtries which they occupied and conquered. Very naturally geographymust have had a special attraction for a warlike people which aspired toconquer the world, and to propagate throughout it the religion of the Koran. The schools of Cordova and Toledo in Spain, as well as those of Bagdadand of Dschindesabour in Asia Minor, accordingly remained open forgeograiDhical instruction at a period when geography was no longer taughtthroughout the West, which was at that time plunged in barbarian darkness. From the sixth to the tenth century there were but few manuscriptswhich escaped destruction; all the coloured maps and traced itineraries were,like the images, ruthlessly destroyed by the iconoclasts. The only remaining GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCE. m
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Fly. lJ.5.—Arrival at Cologne of the fleet of the Tyrant Maximus, who revolted against the Roman Emperor Gratian. Some of the Vessels conveyed St. Ursula and her Companions to the number of eleven thousand, who were put to death by the Barbarians whom the Emperor Gratian had dispatched against the hostile Fleet.—Fragment of the Legend of St. Ursula, painted upon the Reliquary of that Saint, at Bruges, by J. Memling (Fifteenth Century).

notions of Cosinogrii))liy and geofrraphy dating from that period arc to bo N N 274 GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCE. found hidden in scholastic encyclopcedias, which, like the ark in the Deluge,float here and there amidst the abysses of ignorance. In addition to theencjclopsedic compilations of Martianus Capella (470) and Isidore of Seville,there were a few historians who took some interest in geography : the historianof the Franks, Gregory of Tours (about 590), the historian designated as the Anoujanous of Ravenna, and the historian of the Lombards, Pau

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