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The University of Chicago Press, University of Chicago Press
Language
English
Pages
424

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Subjects
Encyclopedias and dictionaries, History and criticism, Medieval Literature, Vincent, of beauvais, -1264, Literature, medieval, history and criticism, Encyclopedias and dictionaries, history and criticism
People
Vincent of Beauvais (d. 1264), Ramon Llull (1232?-1316), Guillaume de Lorris (fl. 1230)

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2012, University of Chicago Press
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Table of Contents

The archive
The book of the world: encyclopedism and scholastic ways of knowing
The order of the encyclopedia
Narrative and natural history: the organization of the Speculum maius
The obscure figures of the encyclopedia: tree paradigms in the Arbor scientiae
Metaphor in the mirror of nature: nature's speech in the Roman de la rose
Heterotopias
A fissured mirror: the Speculum maius as heterotopia
The phoenix in the mirror: the encyclopedic subject.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Chicago, London

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Dewey Decimal Class
809/.02
Library of Congress
PN671 .F735 2012, PN671.F735 2012

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Pagination
pages. cm.
Number of pages
424

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OL25087496M
ISBN 10
0226260682
ISBN 13
9780226260686
LCCN
2011044420
OCLC/WorldCat
756577783

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