Nature and Human Society in the Pre-Modern World
The Physical Reality within the Global Context: Medicine, Philosophy, Literature, Science, and the Arts
Abstract
This study will demonstrate that already the Middle Ages knew of an intensive discourse on nature which was viewed either concretely in material terms or symbolically and allegorically in the religious, literary-historical, and philosophical context. That discourse never came to a stop, so it is impossible to limit ourselves to a small set of individual voices addressing nature. Insofar as we are facing here a true discourse, with many different speakers involved (philosophers, theologians, authors, artists, composers), this introductory article can only serve ...
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