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By Jason König,Greg Woolf

there's a wealthy physique of encyclopaedic writing which survives from the 2 millennia prior to the Enlightenment. This booklet sheds new mild on that fabric. It lines the advance of traditions of information ordering which stretched again to Pliny and Varro and others within the classical international. it really works with a large inspiration of encyclopaedism, resisting the concept there has been any transparent pre-modern style of the 'encyclopaedia', and displaying as a substitute how the rhetoric and methods of entire compilation left their mark on a shocking variety of texts. within the method it attracts recognition to either awesome similarities and impressive changes among conventions of encyclopaedic compilation in numerous sessions, with a spotlight totally on European/Mediterranean tradition. The ebook covers classical, medieval (including Byzantine and Arabic) and Renaissance tradition in flip, and combines chapters which survey entire sessions with others targeted heavily on person texts as case studies.

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