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020			_a9781139814683 (ebook)
020			_z9781107038233 (hardback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aAE1 _b.E475 2013
082	0	0	_a031.09 _223
245	0	0	_aEncyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance / _cedited by Jason König, Greg Woolf.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (615 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aThere 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 and Varro and others in the classical world. It works with a broad concept of encyclopaedism, resisting the idea that there was any clear pre-modern genre of the 'encyclopaedia', and showing instead how the rhetoric and techniques of comprehensive compilation left their mark on a surprising range of texts. In the process it draws attention to both remarkable similarities and striking differences between conventions of encyclopaedic compilation in different periods, with a focus primarily on European/Mediterranean culture. The book covers classical, medieval (including Byzantine and Arabic) and Renaissance culture in turn, and combines chapters which survey whole periods with others focused closely on individual texts as case studies.
650		0	_aEncyclopedists
700	1		_aKönig, Jason, _eeditor.
700	1		_aWoolf, Greg, _eeditor.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107038233
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139814683
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c37297 _d37297