Reading the world : encyclopedic writing in the scholastic age /

Reading the world : encyclopedic writing in the scholastic age /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Franklin-Brown, Mary.
Imprint:	Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Vincent, -- of Beauvais, -- -1264. -- Speculum majus. Llull, Ramon, -- 1232?-1316. -- Arbre de ciència. Jean, -- de Meun, -- approximately 1240-approximately 1305? -- Roman de la rose. Llull, Ramon, -- 1232?-1316. -- Libre de meravelles. Arbre de ciència (Llull, Ramon) Roman de la Rose (Jean, de Meun) Speculum majus (Vincent, of Beauvais) Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism. Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- History and criticism. Encyclopedias and dictionaries. Literature, Medieval. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11140644

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ISBN:	9780226260709 0226260704 9780226260686 0226260682
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Franklin-Brown, Mary. Reading the world. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012 9780226260686

Table of Contents:

The archive
The book of the world: encyclopedism and scholastic ways of knowing
The order of the encyclopedia
Narrative and natural history: the organization of the Speculum maius
The obscure figures of the encyclopedia: tree paradigms in the Arbor scientiae
Metaphor in the mirror of nature: nature's speech in the Roman de la rose
Heterotopias
A fissured mirror: the Speculum maius as heterotopia
The phoenix in the mirror: the encyclopedic subject.