• Craft and Criticism
  • Fiction and Poetry
  • News and Culture
  • Lit Hub Radio
  • Reading Lists
  • Book Marks
  • CrimeReads
  • About
Literary Hub
  • Craft and Criticism
    • Literary Criticism
    • Craft and Advice
    • In Conversation
    • On Translation
  • Fiction and Poetry
    • Short Story
    • From the Novel
    • Poem
  • News and Culture
    • The Virtual Book Channel
    • Film and TV
    • Music
    • Art and Photography
    • Food
    • Travel
    • Style
    • Design
    • Science
    • Technology
    • History
    • Biography
    • Memoir
    • Bookstores and Libraries
    • Freeman’s
    • Sports
    • The Hub
  • Lit Hub Radio
    • Behind the Mic
    • Beyond the Page
    • The Cosmic Library
    • Emergence Magazine
    • Fiction/Non/Fiction
    • First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
    • Just the Right Book
    • Keen On
    • Literary Disco
    • The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan
    • The Maris Review
    • New Books Network
    • Open Form
    • Otherppl with Brad Listi
    • So Many Damn Books
    • Thresholds
    • Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre
    • Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
    • WMFA
  • Reading Lists
    • The Best of the Decade
  • Book Marks
    • Best Reviewed Books
    • BookMarks Daily Giveaway
  • CrimeReads
    • True Crime
    • The Daily Thrill
    • CrimeReads Daily Giveaway

Home Articles posted by William Egginton

William Egginton

William Egginton
William Egginton is the Decker Professor in the Humanities and Director of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of multiple books, including How the World Became a Stage (2003), Perversity and Ethics (2006), A Wrinkle in History (2007), The Philosopher’s Desire (2007), The Theater of Truth (2010), In Defense of Religious Moderation (2011), The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World (2016), Medialogies: Reading Reality in the Age of Inflationary Media (2017), The Splintering of the American Mind (2018) and What Would Cervantes Do? Navigating Post-Truth With Spanish Baroque Literature (2022).


On the “Inverted Cosmos”—From Aristotle to the Middle Ages

William Egginton on Crystalline Spheres and Dante's Divine Comedy
August 30, 2023  By William Egginton
0


  • RSS

    • RSS - Posts
  • Literary Hub

    Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature


    Masthead


    About


    Sign Up For Our Newsletters


    How to Pitch Lit Hub

    Advertisers: Contact Us


    Privacy Policy



  • © LitHub
    Back to top