Literature and Science in the Early Middle Ages

这个项目旨在研究早期中世纪科学和文学想象之间的相互作用。该项目的重点是盎格鲁-撒克逊英格兰，那里除了学习拉丁文学文化外，还提供了充分发展和保存完好的白话文学记录。它的目的是研究西方文化转型时刻的一个重要的相互关系：科学学习如何影响中世纪早期的文学想象，以及文学想象如何影响中世纪早期的科学。研究科学和文学之间的关系提供了一种洞察，人们如何理解他们周围的世界以及他们与周围世界的关系，根据继承的知识和想象力来解释。

This project aims to investigate the interplay between early medieval science and the literary imagination. The project focuses on Anglo-Saxon England, which provides a fully developed and well-preserved vernacular literary record, beside a learned Latin literary culture. It aims to investigate an important reciprocal relationship at a transitional moment in Western culture: the ways scientific learning influenced the early medieval literary imagination, and how the literary imagination influenced early medieval science. Study of the relationship between science and literature provides an insight into how people have understood the world around them and their relationship with it, interpreted in the light of inherited knowledge and the imagination.