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Pre-Modern Encyclopaedic Texts: Proceedings of the Second COMERS Congress, Groningen, 1-4 July 1996

By Peter Binkley (ed.)

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
1997
ISBN
9004108300, 9789004108301
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
24 MB (24744936 bytes)
Series
Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 79
Pages
456\458
Topic
History
Time added
2023-02-05 23:33:51

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'Pre-Modern Encyclopaedic Texts' presents the proceedings of the second COMERS congress, the successor to 'Centres of Learning' (Brill, 1995). Like its predecessor it contains in ancient, medieval and renaissance Europe and the Near East. Although the genre of encyclopaedia was defined and named only in modern times, texts that aspire to the encyclopaedic ideals of utility and comprehensiveness are found throughout recorded history. They respond to and shape ideas about the natural world, human history, and the nature and limits of human knowledge. The present volume comprises five extended essays on the problems and opportunities facing researchers into encyclopaedic texts, and 21 research papers on specific topics. It will be of interest to a general university audience as an interdisciplinary project, as well as to specialists in the various disciplines covered. Acknowledgements ix Notes on Contributors xi Abbreviations xiii Preface xv ENCYCLOPAEDIA: DEFINITIONS AND THEORETICAL QUESTIONS Robert L. Fowler / Encyclopaedias: Definitions and Theoretical Problems 3 E. C. Ronquist / Patient and Impatient Encyclopaedism 31 Bernard Ribémont / On the Definition of an Encyclopaedic Genre in the Middle Ages 47 Margriet Hoogvliet / 'Mappae mundi' and Medieval Encyclopaedias: Image versus Text 63 Peter Binkley / Preachers' Responses to Thirteenth-Century Encyclopaedism 75 Brian W. Ogilvie / Encyclopaedism in Renaissance Botany: From 'historia' to 'pinax' 89 ORGANISATION OF KNOWLEDGE Christel Meier / Organisation of Knowledge and Encyclopaedic 'ordo': Functions and Purposes of a Universal Literary Genre 103 Catherine Rubincam / The Organisation of Material in Graeco-Roman World Histories 127 Hilary Kilpatrick / Cosmic Correspondences: Songs as a Starting Point for an Encyclopaedic Portrayal of Culture 137 Kimberly Rivers / Memory, Division, and the Organisation of Knowledge in the Middle Ages 147 Maaike van Berkel / The Attitude towards Knowledge in Mamluk Egypt: Organisation and Structure of the 'Subh al-a'sha' by al-Qalqashandi (1355-1418) 159 Jan R. Veenstra / Cataloguing Superstition: A Paradigmatic Shift in the Art of Knowing the Future 169 EPISTEMOLOGY OF ENCYCLOPAEDIC KNOWLEDGE John North / Encyclopaedias and the Art of Knowing Everything 183 Wout Jac. van Bekkum / Sailing on the Sea of Talmud: the Encyclopaedic Code of Early Jewish Exegesis 201 Bert Roest / Compilation as Theme and Praxis in Franciscan Universal Chronicles 213 Guy Guldentops / Henry Bate's Encyclopaedism 227 CULTURAL AND POLITICAL USES Geert Jan van Gelder / Compleat Men, Women and Books: On Medieval Arabic Encyclopaedism 241 Frank Trombley / The Taktika of Nikephoros Ouranos and Military Encyclopaedism 261 G. J. Reinink / Communal Identity and the Systematisation of Knowledge in the Syriac 'Cause of all Causes' 275 E. L. Saak / The Limits of Knowledge: Hélinand de Froidmont's 'Chronicon' 289 William Ν. West / Public Knowledge at Private Parties: Vives, Jonson, and the Circulation of the Circle of Knowledge 303 Vincent C. Renstrom / Censoring Encyclopaedic Knowledge: The Case of Sahagun and Sixteenth-Century Spanish America 315 RECEPTION AND TRANSMISSION OF TEXTS Michael W. Twomey / Towards a Reception History of Western Medieval Encyclopaedias in England Before 1500 329 William Schipper / The Earliest Manuscripts of Rabanus Maurus' 'De rerum naturis' (Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek, MS Aug. 68 and Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek MS 121) 363 John B. Friedman / Albert the Great's Topoi of Direct Observation and his Debt to Thomas of Cantimpré 379 Juris G. Lidaka / Bartholomaeus Anglicus in the Thirteenth Century 393 Ulrich Marzolph / Medieval Knowledge in Modern Reading: A Fifteenth-Century Arabic Encyclopaedia of 'omni re scibili' 407 Index 421

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