Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance

Reference Type	Book
Year of Publication	2013
Author	Editor: Jason König Editor: Greg Woolf
Language	English
Number of Pages	601 pp.
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
City	Cambridge, England
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Region	Africa Asia Europe Middle East
Chronological Period	Ancient Period (pre 500) 6th century 7th century 8th century 9th century 10th century 11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century
ISBN	9781107038233
Annotation	Contents: Introduction / Jason Konig and Greg Woolf Part I. Classical Encyclopaedism Encyclopaedism in the Roman Empire / Jason Konig and Greg Woolf Encyclopaedism in the Alexandrian Library / Myrto Hatzimichali Labores pro bono publico: the burdensome mission of Pliny's Natural History / Mary Beagon Encyclopaedias of virtue? Collections of sayings and stories about wise men in Greek / Teresa Morgan Plutarch's corpus of Quaestiones in the tradition of imperial Greek encyclopaedism / Katerina Oikonomopoulou Artemidorus' Oneirocritica as fragmentary encyclopaedia / Daniel Harris-McCoy Encyclopaedias and autocracy: Justinian's Encyclopaedia of Roman law / Jill Harries Late Latin encyclopaedism: towards a new paradigm of practical knowledge / Marco Formisano Part II. Medieval Encyclopaedism Byzantine encyclopaedism of the ninth and tenth centuries / Paul Magdalino The imperial systematisation of the past in Constantinople: Constantine VII and his Historical Excerpts / Andres Nemeth Ad maiorem Dei gloriam: Joseph Rhakendys' synopsis of Byzantine learning / Erika Gielen Shifting horizons: the medieval compilation of knowledge as mirror of a changing world / Elizabeth Keen Isidore's Etymologies: on words and things / Andrew Merrills Loose Giblets: encyclopaedic sensibilities of ordinatio and compilatio in later medieval English literary culture and the sad case of Reginald Pecock / Ian Johnson Why was the fourteenth century a century of Arabic encyclopaedism? / Elias Muhanna Opening up a world of knowledge: Mamluk encyclopaedias and their readers / Maaike van Berkel Part III. Renaissance Encyclopaedism Revisiting Renaissance encyclopaedism / Ann Blair Philosophy and the Renaissance encyclopaedia: some observations / D.C. Andersson Reading 'Pliny's Ape' in the Renaissance: the Polyhistor of Caius Julius Solinus in the first century of print / Paul Dover Shakespeare's encyclopaedias / Neil Rhodes Big dig: Dugdale's drainage and the dregs of England History of Embanking and Drayning / Claire Preston Irony and encyclopedic writing before (and after) the Enlightenment / William West Part IV. Chinese Encyclopaedism: A Postscript The passion to collect, select, and protect: fifteen hundred years of the Chinese encyclopaedia / Harriet Zurndorfer