Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance |
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| Editor:
| König, Jason
Woolf, Greg |
| ISBN: | 978-1-009-49075-7 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2024 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $64.99 |
Book Description:
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Extensive reassessment of the rich body of encyclopaedic writing surviving from the two millennia before the Enlightenment. Traces the development of traditions of knowledge ordering which stretched back to Pliny and Varro and others in the classical world, with the focus primarily on European/Mediterranean culture.
Extensive reassessment of the rich body of encyclopaedic writing surviving from the two millennia before the Enlightenment. Traces the development of traditions of knowledge ordering which stretched back to Pliny and Varro and others in the classical world, with the focus primarily on European/Mediterranean culture.