Taxonomies of Knowledge: Information and Order in Medieval Manuscripts

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2015
Author
Editor: Lynn Ransom
Language
Number of Pages
176 pp.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
City
Philadelphia, PA
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Region
Chronological Period
ISBN
9780812247596
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