Encyclopaedism from antiquity to the Renaissance / / edited by Jason Konig and Greg Woolf.

• TeilnehmendeR: Konig, Jason.; Woolf, Greg.
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge ;, New York : : Cambridge University Press,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (619 pages)
• Other title: Encyclopedism from antiquity to the Renaissance
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9781107038233 (hardback); 9781107468641
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Jason Konig and Greg Woolf.

"Shedding new light on the rich body of encyclopaedic writing surviving from the two millennia before the Enlightenment, this book 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"--