@book{bibcite_8133,
  editor = {Jason K{\"o}nig and Greg Woolf},
  title = {Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance},
  year = {2013},
  pages = {601 pp.},
  publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
  address = {Cambridge, England},
  isbn = {9781107038233},
  note = {<p>Contents:\&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Introduction / Jason Konig and Greg Woolf\&nbsp;</li></ul><p>Part I. Classical Encyclopaedism\&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Encyclopaedism in the Roman Empire / Jason Konig and Greg Woolf </li><li>Encyclopaedism in the Alexandrian Library / Myrto Hatzimichali </li><li>Labores pro bono publico: the burdensome mission of Pliny{\textquoteright}s Natural History / Mary Beagon </li><li>Encyclopaedias of virtue? Collections of sayings and stories about wise men in Greek / Teresa Morgan </li><li>Plutarch{\textquoteright}s corpus of Quaestiones in the tradition of imperial Greek encyclopaedism / Katerina Oikonomopoulou </li><li>Artemidorus{\textquoteright} Oneirocritica as fragmentary encyclopaedia / Daniel Harris-McCoy </li><li>Encyclopaedias and autocracy: Justinian{\textquoteright}s Encyclopaedia of Roman law / Jill Harries </li><li>Late Latin encyclopaedism: towards a new paradigm of practical knowledge / Marco Formisano\&nbsp;</li></ul><p>Part II. Medieval Encyclopaedism\&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Byzantine encyclopaedism of the ninth and tenth centuries / Paul Magdalino </li><li>The imperial systematisation of the past in Constantinople: Constantine VII and his Historical Excerpts / Andres Nemeth </li><li>Ad maiorem Dei gloriam: Joseph Rhakendys{\textquoteright} synopsis of Byzantine learning / Erika Gielen </li><li>Shifting horizons: the medieval compilation of knowledge as mirror of a changing world / Elizabeth Keen </li><li>Isidore{\textquoteright}s Etymologies: on words and things / Andrew Merrills </li><li>Loose Giblets: encyclopaedic sensibilities of ordinatio and compilatio in later medieval English literary culture and the sad case of Reginald Pecock / Ian Johnson </li><li>Why was the fourteenth century a century of Arabic encyclopaedism? / Elias Muhanna </li><li>Opening up a world of knowledge: Mamluk encyclopaedias and their readers / Maaike van Berkel\&nbsp;</li></ul><p>Part III. Renaissance Encyclopaedism\&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Revisiting Renaissance encyclopaedism / Ann Blair </li><li>Philosophy and the Renaissance encyclopaedia: some observations / D.C. Andersson </li><li>Reading {\textquoteright}Pliny{\textquoteright}s Ape{\textquoteright} in the Renaissance: the Polyhistor of Caius Julius Solinus in the first century of print / Paul Dover </li><li>Shakespeare{\textquoteright}s encyclopaedias / Neil Rhodes </li><li>Big dig: Dugdale{\textquoteright}s drainage and the dregs of England History of Embanking and Drayning / Claire Preston </li><li>Irony and encyclopedic writing before (and after) the Enlightenment / William West\&nbsp;</li></ul><p>Part IV. Chinese Encyclopaedism: A Postscript\&nbsp;</p><ul><li>The passion to collect, select, and protect: fifteen hundred years of the Chinese encyclopaedia / Harriet Zurndorfer</li></ul>},
  language = {English},
}