Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance by Jason König, Greg Woolf

Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance

Jason König, Greg Woolf

615 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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There is a rich body of encyclopaedic writing which survives from the two millennia before the Enlightenment. This book sheds new light on that material. It traces the development of traditions of knowledge-ordering which stretched back to Pliny a...

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