Reading the world : encyclopedic writing in the scholastic age
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Chicago, Ill. [u.a.] : University of Chicago Press,
2012
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| Schlagworte: | Literature, Medieval Encyclopedias and dictionaries Enzyklopädismus Scholastik Philosophie |
| Umfang: | XXII, 446 S. |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.