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Reading the World: Encyclopedic Writing in the Scholastic Age
By (author) Mary Franklin-Brown
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The thirteenth century saw such a proliferation of new encyclopedic texts that more than one scholar has called it the OC century of the encyclopedias.OCO Variously referred to as a ""speculum,"" ""thesaurus,"" or ""imago mundi""OCothe term ""encyclopedia"" was not commonly applied to such books until the eighteenth centuryOCothese texts were organized in such a way that a reader could easily locate a collection of authoritative statements on any given topic. Because they reproduced, rather than simply summarized, parts of prior texts, these compilations became libraries in miniature.aIn this groundbreaking study, Mary Franklin-Brown examines writings in Latin, Catalan, and French that are connected to the encyclopedic movement: Vincent of BeauvaisOCOs ""Speculum maius""; Ramon LlullOCOs ""Libre de meravelles,"" ""Arbor scientiae,"" and ""Arbre de filosofia dOCOamor""; and Jean de MeunOCOs continuation of the ""Roman de la Rose."" Franklin-Brown analyzes the order of knowledge in these challenging texts, describing the wide-ranging interests, the textual practicesOCoincluding commentary, compilation, and organizationOCoand the diverse discourses that they absorb from preexisting classical, patristic, and medieval writing. She also demonstrates how these encyclopedias, like libraries, became OC heterotopiasOCO of knowledgeOCospaces where many possible ways of knowing are juxtaposed.aBut Franklin-BrownOCOs study will not appeal only to historians: she argues that a revised understanding of late medievalism makes it possible to discern a close connection between scholasticism and contemporary imaginative literature. She shows how encyclopedists employed the same practices of figuration, narrative, and citation as poets and ""romanciers,"" while much of the difficulty of the imaginative writing of this period derives from a juxtaposition of heterogeneous discourses inspired by encyclopedias.aaWith rich and innovative readings of texts both familiar and neglected, ""Reading the World"" reveals how the study of encyclopedism can illuminate both the intellectual work and the imaginative writing of the scholastic age.a
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Publisher | The University of Chicago Press
Published date | 14 May 2014
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Format | Digital (delivered electronically)
Pages | 473
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ISBN | 978-0-2262-6070-9
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BISAC | literary criticism / european / general
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