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The thirteenth century saw such a proliferation of new encyclopedic texts that more than one scholar has called in the century of the encyclopedias. In this study, the author examines writings in Latin, Catalan, and French that are connected to the encyclopedic movement.

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"Mary Franklin-Brown has taken on the very difficult task of making the medieval encyclopedia accessible as literature and developed an original and very effective method for doing so. It has required the powers of a sophisticated literary critic together with an art historian's ability to interpret manuscript illustrations and a codicologist's understanding of the layout of the manuscript page. The result is a tour de force." (Winthrop Wetherbee, Cornell University)"

Reading the World

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      Publisher: University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 9/1/2012 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226260686, 978-0226260686
      ISBN10: 0226260682
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      History and Archaeology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The thirteenth century saw such a proliferation of new encyclopedic texts that more than one scholar has called in the century of the encyclopedias. In this study, the author examines writings in Latin, Catalan, and French that are connected to the encyclopedic movement.

      Trade Review
      "Mary Franklin-Brown has taken on the very difficult task of making the medieval encyclopedia accessible as literature and developed an original and very effective method for doing so. It has required the powers of a sophisticated literary critic together with an art historian's ability to interpret manuscript illustrations and a codicologist's understanding of the layout of the manuscript page. The result is a tour de force." (Winthrop Wetherbee, Cornell University)"

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