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ISBN: | 9780226260709 0226260704 9780226260686 0226260682
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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Summary: | & DIV & The thirteenth century saw such a proliferation of new encyclopedic texts that more than one scholar has called it the & ldquo;century of the encyclopedias. & rdquo; Variously referred to as a & i & speculum & /i &, & i & thesaurus & /i &, or & i & imago mundi & /i & & mdash;the term & i & encyclopedia & /i & was not commonly applied to such books until the eighteenth century & mdash;these texts were organized in such a way that a reader could easily locate a collection of authoritative statements on any given topic. Because they reproduced, rather than simply summarized, parts of prior texts, these compilations became.
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Other form: | Print version: Franklin-Brown, Mary. Reading the world. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012 9780226260686
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