Encyclopaedism from antiquity to the Renaissance /
There is a rich body of encyclopaedic writing which survives from the two millennia before the Enlightenment. This book sheds new light on that material. It traces the development of traditions of knowledge ordering which stretched back to Pliny and Varro and others in the classical world. It works...
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2013
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Encyclopaedism from antiquity to the Renaissance |
Obsah:
- 1., Introduction / Jason Konig and Greg Woolf
- Part I., Classical Encyclopaedism
- 2., Encyclopaedism in the Roman Empire / Jason Konig and Greg Woolf
- 3., Encyclopaedism in the Alexandrian Library / Myrto Hatzimichali
- 4., Labores pro bono publico: the burdensome mission of Pliny's Natural History / Mary Beagon
- 5., Encyclopaedias of virtue? Collections of sayings and stories about wise men in Greek / Teresa Morgan
- 6., Plutarch's corpus of Quaestiones in the tradition of imperial Greek encyclopaedism / Katerina Oikonomopoulou
- 7., Artemidorus' Oneirocritica as fragmentary encyclopaedia / Daniel Harris-McCoy
- 8., Encyclopaedias and autocracy: Justinian's Encyclopaedia of Roman law / Jill Harries
- 9., Late Latin encyclopaedism: towards a new paradigm of practical knowledge / Marco Formisano
- Part II. Medieval Encyclopaedism
- 10., Byzantine encyclopaedism of the ninth and tenth centuries / Paul Magdalino
- 11., The imperial systematisation of the past in Constantinople: Constantine VII and his Historical Excerpts / Andrés Németh
- 12., Ad maiorem Dei gloriam: Joseph Rhakendytès' synopsis of Byzantine learning / Erika Gielen
- 13., Shifting horizons: the medieval compilation of knowledge as mirror of a changing world / Elizabeth Keen
- 14., Isidore's Etymologies: on words and things / Andrew Merrills
- 15., Loose giblets: encyclopaedic sensibilities of ordinatio and compilatio in later medieval English literary culture and the sad case of Reginald Pecock / Ian Johnson
- 16., Why was the fourteenth century a century of Arabic encyclopaedism? / Elias Muhanna
- 17., Opening up a world of knowledge: Mamluk encyclopaedias and their readers / Maaike van Berkel
- Part III. Renaissance Encyclopaedism
- 18., Revisiting Renaissance encyclopaedism / Ann Blair
- 19., Philosophy and the Renaissance encyclopaedia: some observations / Daniel Andersson
- -20., Reading 'Pliny's Ape' in the Renaissance: the Polyhistor of Caius Julius Solinus in the first century of print / Paul Dover
- 21., Shakespeare's encyclopaedias / Neil Rhodes
- 22., Big dig: Dugdale's drainage and the dregs of England History of Embanking and Drayning / Claire Preston
- 23., Irony and encyclopedic writing before (and after) the Enlightenment / William N. West
- Part IV. Chinese Encyclopaedism: A Postscript
- 24., The passion to collect, select, and protect: fifteen hundred years of the Chinese encyclopaedia / Harriet Zurndorfer