Encyclopedic trends in Byzantium? : proceedings of the international conference held in Leuven, 6-8 May 2009 / edited by Peter Van Deun and Caroline Macé

• Superior document: Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 212
• Place / Publishing House: Leuven : Uitgeverij Peeters en Departement Oosterse Studies, 2011
• Дата издания: 2011
• Язык: English
• Серии: Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 212
• Classification: 18.43 - Byzantinische Sprache und Literatur
• Объем: XIX, 458 Seiten; Illustrationen

In May 2009 the Leuven Institute of Early Christian and Byzantine Studies organized an international congress, with the title: "Encyclopedic trends in Byzantium?" Some 40 scholars discussed the concept of Byzantine "encyclopedism", a notion coined definitively in 1971 by the Fren...