Taxonomies of Knowledge: Information and Order in Medieval Manuscripts

TitleTaxonomies of Knowledge: Information and Order in Medieval Manuscripts
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2015
Series EditorSteiner, Emily, Ransom, Lynn
Number of Pages176 pp.
PublisherUniversity of Pennsylvania Press
CityPhiladelphia, PA
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780812247596
Annotation

Contents:
The poems of "Ch" : taxonomizing literary tradition / Elizaveta Strakhov
Worlds in books / Alfred Hiatt
Poetry's place in scholastic taxonomies of knowledge / Mary Franklin-Brown
Manuscripts of Latin translations of scientific texts from Arabic / Charles Burnett
Reading step by step : pictorial allegory and pastoral care in Piers Plowman / Katharine Breen
"Life" lessons in Anna Eybin's Book of Saints (ca. 1465-1482) / Sara S. Poor.

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