The Magic of the Middle Ages

THE
Magic of the Middle Ages
BY VIKTOR RYDBERG
Translated from the Swedish BY AUGUST HJALMAR EDGREN
NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1879
Copyright 1879, BY Henry Holt & Co
CONTENTS.

THE COSMIC PHILOSOPHY OF THE MIDDLE AGES, AND ITS HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT.
INTRODUCTORY.
It was the belief of Europe during the Middle Ages, that our globe was the centre of the universe.
The earth, itself fixed and immovable, was encompassed by ten heavens successively encircling one another, and all of these except the highest in constant rotation about their centre.