TY - SER
AU - Jason König
AU - Greg Woolf
CY - Cambridge, England
LA - English
N1 - <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'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's corpus of Quaestiones in the tradition of imperial Greek encyclopaedism / Katerina Oikonomopoulou </li><li>Artemidorus' Oneirocritica as fragmentary encyclopaedia / Daniel Harris-McCoy </li><li>Encyclopaedias and autocracy: Justinian'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' 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'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 'Pliny's Ape' in the Renaissance: the Polyhistor of Caius Julius Solinus in the first century of print / Paul Dover </li><li>Shakespeare's encyclopaedias / Neil Rhodes </li><li>Big dig: Dugdale'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>
PB - Cambridge University Press
PP - Cambridge, England
PY - 2013
SN - 9781107038233
EP - 601 pp.
TI - Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance
ER -