Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance.

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag leicht berieben und mit leichten Randl�ren, Bleistifteintrag auf Vorsatz, eine Seite weist einen Knick auf, sonst sehr guter Zustand / dust jacket slightly rubbed and with slight edge wear, pencil entry on endpaper, one page has a big crease, otherwise very good condition. - There is a rich body of encyclopaedic writing from the two millennia before the Enlightenment. This book sheds new light on this material. It 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. The focus is 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 / 1 Introduction Jason Konig and Greg Woolf Part I ClassicalEncyclopaedism 2 Encyclopaedism in the Roman empire Jason Konig and Greg Woolf 3 Encyclopaedism in the Alexandrian library Myrto Hatzimichali 4 Labores pro bono publico: the burdensome mission of Pliny�s Natural History Mary Beagon 5 Encyclopaedias of virtue? Collections of sayings and stories about wise men in Greek Teresa Morgan 6 Plutarch's corpus of quaestiones in the tradition of imperial Greek encyclopaedism Katerina Oikonomopoulou 7 Artemidorus� Oneirocritica as fragmentary encyclopaedia Daniel Harris-McCoy 8 Encyclopaedias and autocracy: Justinian�s Encyclopaedia of Roman law Jill Harries 9 Late Latin encyclopaedism: towards a new paradigm of practical knowledge Marco Formisano Part II Medieval Encyclopaedism 10 Byzantine encyclopaedism of the ninth and tenth centuries Paul Magdalino 11 The imperial systematisation of the past in Constantinople: Constantine VII and his Historical Excerpts Andras Nemeth 12 Ad maiorem Deigloriam: Joseph Rhakendytes� synopsis of Byzantine learning Erika Gielen 13 Shifting horizons: the medieval compilation of knowledge as mirror of a changing world Elizabeth Keen 14 Isidore�s Etymologies: on words and things Andy Merrills 15 Loose giblets: encyclopaedic sensibilities of ordinatio and compilatio in later medieval English literary culture and the sad case of Reginald Pecock Ian Johnson 16 Why was the fourteenth century a century of Arabic encyclopaedism? Elias Muhanna 17 Opening up a world of knowledge: Mamluk encyclopaedias and their readers Maaike van Berkel Part III Renaissance Encyclopaedism 18 Revisiting Renaissance encyclopaedism Ann Blair 19 Philosophy and the Renaissance encyclopaedi some observations Daniel Andersson 20 Reading �Pliny�s ape� in the Renaissance: the Polyhistor of Caius Julius Solinus in the first century of print Paul Dover 21 Shakespeare�s encyclopaedias Neil Rhodes 22 Big Dig: Dugdale�s drainage and the dregs of England Claire Preston 23 Irony and encyclopaedic writing before (and after) the Enlightenment William N. West Part IV Chinese Encyclopaedism: A Postscript 24 The passion to collect, select and protect: fifteen hundred years of the Chinese encyclopaedia Harriett. Zurndorfer. ISBN 9781107038233