Reading the world
Subtitle: encyclopedic writing in the scholastic age
By: Mary Franklin-Brown
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780226260686
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries; History and criticism; Medieval Literature
Description: In this study, Mary Franklin-Brown examines writings in Latin Catalan, and French that are connected to the encyclopedic movement: Vincent of Beauvais's 'Speculum maius', Ramon Llull's 'Arbor scientiae' and 'Libre de meravelles', and Jean de Meun's continuation of the 'Roman de la Rose'.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The archive; title: The book of the world: encyclopedism and scholastic ways of knowing; title: The order of the encyclopedia; title: Narrative and natural history: the organization of the Speculum maius; title: The obscure figures of the encyclopedia: tree paradigms in the Arbor scientiae; title: Metaphor in the mirror of nature: nature's speech in the Roman de la rose; title: Heterotopias; title: A fissured mirror: the Speculum maius as heterotopia; title: The phoenix in the mirror: the encyclopedic subject.