Reading the World: Encyclopedic Writing in the Scholastic Age
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The thirteenth century saw such a proliferation of new encyclopedic texts that more than one scholar has called it the "century of the encyclopedias." Variously referred to as a speculum , thesaurus , or imago mundi --the term encyclopedia was not commonly applied to such books until the eighteenth century--these texts were organized in such a way that a reader could easily locate a collection of authoritative statements on any given topic. Because...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0226260682
ISBN13:9780226260686
Release Date:September 2012
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:424 Pages
Weight:1.75 lbs.
Dimensions:1.5" x 6.2" x 9.0"
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