Encyclopaedism from antiquity to the Renaissance

• Tác giả: Jason König, Greg Woolf
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1107038233
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 031.09 General encyclopedic works in American English
• Mô tả vật lý: xv, 601 pages : , illustrations ; , 26 c
• Bộ sưu tập: Công nghệ thông tin
• ID: 349387
• Chủ đề: 1. Civilization, Ancient; 2. Civilization, Medieval; 3. Encyclopedias and dictionaries--History and criticism; 4. Encyclopedists; 5. Learning and scholarship--History--16th century; 6. Learning and scholarship--History--17th century; 7. Learning and scholarship--History--To 1500; 8. Renaissance

Includes bibliographical references(pages [529]-588) and index

Tóm tắt

"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"-- Provided by publisher