Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the RenaissanceJason König, Greg Woolf Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Jason Konig and Greg Woolf; Part I. Classical Encyclopaedism: 2. Encyclopaedism in the Roman Empire Jason Konig and Greg Woolf; 3. Encyclopaedism in the Alexandrian Library Myrto Hatzimichali; 4. Labores pro bono publico: the burdensome mission of Pliny's Natural History Mary Beagon; 5. Encyclopaedias of virtue? Collections of sayings and stories about wise men in Greek Teresa Morgan; 6. Plutarch's corpus of Quaestiones in the tradition of imperial Greek encyclopaedism Katerina Oikonomopoulou; 7. Artemidorus' Oneirocritica as fragmentary encyclopaedia Daniel Harris-McCoy; 8. Encyclopaedias and autocracy: Justinian's Encyclopaedia of Roman law Jill Harries; 9. Late Latin encyclopaedism: towards a new paradigm of practical knowledge Marco Formisano; Part II. Medieval Encyclopaedism: 10. Byzantine encyclopaedism of the ninth and tenth centuries Paul Magdalino; 11. The imperial systematisation of the past in Constantinople: Constantine VII and his Historical Excerpts Andres Nemeth; 12. Ad maiorem Dei gloriam: Joseph Rhakendys' synopsis of Byzantine learning Erika Gielen; 13. Shifting horizons: the medieval compilation of knowledge as mirror of a changing world Elizabeth Keen; 14. Isidore's Etymologies: on words and things Andrew Merrills; 15. Loose Giblets: encyclopaedic sensibilities of ordinatio and compilatio in later medieval English literary culture and the sad case of Reginald Pecock Ian Johnson; 16. Why was the fourteenth century a century of Arabic encyclopaedism? Elias Muhanna; 17. Opening up a world of knowledge: Mamluk encyclopaedias and their readers Maaike van Berkel; Part III. Renaissance Encyclopaedism: 18. Revisiting Renaissance encyclopaedism Ann Blair; 19. Philosophy and the Renaissance encyclpaedia: some observations D.C. Andersson; 20. Reading 'Pliny's Ape' in the Renaissance: the Polyhistor of Cai++. |
Contents
Encyclopaedism in the Roman empire 23 | 23 |
Encyclopaedism in the Alexandrian library 64 | 64 |
the burdensome mission of Plinys | 84 |
Encyclopaedias of virtue? Collections of sayings and stories about | 108 |
Plutarchs corpus of quaestiones in the tradition of imperial Greek | 129 |
Artemidorus Oneirocritica as fragmentary encyclopaedia 154 | 154 |
Justinians Encyclopaedia | 178 |
of practical knowledge 197 | 197 |
encyclopaedic sensibilities of ordinatio | 325 |
Why was the fourteenth century a century of Arabic | 343 |
Mamluk encyclopaedias | 357 |
Revisiting Renaissance encyclopaedism 379 | 379 |
the Polyhistor of Caius | 414 |
Shakespeares encyclopaedias 444 | 444 |
Dugdales drainage and the dregs of England 461 | 461 |
Irony and encyclopaedic writing before and after | 482 |
Byzantine encyclopaedism of the ninth and tenth centuries 219 | 219 |
Joseph Rhakendytes synopsis | 259 |
the medieval compilation of knowledge | 277 |
on words and things 301 | 301 |
fifteen hundred years | 505 |
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