Originally published in 1938, this book was the first to cover the history of geographical thought. It discusses the development of medieval earth-knowledge as it was affected, on the one hand, by the prevailing Christian and Muslim ideologies and, on the other, by the results of human enterprise on land and sea.
1.The Passing of Classical Geography 2. The Dark Ages of Geography 3. The Rise and Fall of Moslem Geography 4. The Renaissance of Geographical Studies in Christendom 5. Expanding Horizons – Africa 6. Expanding Horizons – Asia 7. Physical Geography in the Middle Ages 9. The Geographical Background of the Great Age of Discovery 10. The Beginnings of Geographical Science. Appendix: Dante’s Geographical Knowledge.
Biography
George H. T. Kimble was Lecturer in Geography at the University of Reading.
Original Reviews of Geography in the Middle Ages:
‘This book is an important contribution to the remarkably rich English literature of historical geography…it is a well-proportioned, easily readable, and carefully edited summary of mediaeval geography and deserves the most careful attention of every mediaevalist. Erwin Raisz, Speculum, Vol 15, No. 3 (1940).
