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Titre(s) : Encyclopaedism from antiquity to the Renaissance [Texte imprimé] / edited by Jason König and Greg Woolf
Publication : New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xv, 601 p.) : ill. ; 26 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 529-588) and index
"Shedding new light on the rich body of encyclopaedic writing surviving from the two
millennia before the Enlightenment, this book traces the development of traditions
of knowledge ordering which stretched back to Pliny and Varro and others in the classical
world. It works with a broad concept of encyclopaedism, resisting the idea that there
was any clear pre-modern genre of the 'encyclopaedia', and showing instead how the
rhetoric and techniques of comprehensive compilation left their mark on a surprising
range of texts. In the process it draws attention to both remarkable similarities
and striking differences between conventions of encyclopaedic compilation in different
periods, with a focus primarily on European/Mediterranean culture. The book covers
classical, medieval (including Byzantine and Arabic) and Renaissance culture in turn,
and combines chapters which survey whole periods with others focused closely on individual
texts as case studies"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : König, Jason (1973-....). Éditeur scientifique
Woolf, Greg (1961-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Encyclopédies -- Jusqu'à 1500
Savoir et érudition -- Jusqu'à 1500
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107038233. - ISBN 1107038235
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44262846m
Notice n° :
FRBNF44262846
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