Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Konig, Jason

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Produktbeschreibung

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 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107454385
• Artikelnr.: 39939190

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Jason König and Greg Woolf; Part I. Classical
Encyclopaedism: 2. Encyclopaedism in the Roman Empire Jason König 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 András
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 D. C.
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 West; Part IV. Chinese Encyclopaedism: A Postscript: 24. The
passion to collect, select, and protect: fifteen hundred years of the
Chinese encyclopaedia Harriet Zurndorfer.