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xxii, 446 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 393-421) and index |
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The archive -- The book of the world : encyclopedism and scholastic ways of knowing -- The order of the encyclopedia -- Narrative and natural history : vincent of Beauvais's ordo juxta scripturam -- The obscure figures of the encyclopedia : tree paradigms in the Arbor scientiae -- The order of nature : encyclopedic arrangement and poetic recombination in Jean de Meun's continuation of 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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Vincent, of Beauvais, d. 1264. Speculum majus
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Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316. Arbre de ciència
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Jean, de Meun, d. 1305? Roman de la rose
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Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316. Libre de meravelles
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Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism
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Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- History and criticism
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