Encyclopedism From Pliny To Borges

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Encyclopedism From Pliny To Borges

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Author : Anna Sigrídur Arnar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990

Encyclopedism From Pliny To Borges written by Anna Sigrídur Arnar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Encyclopedias and dictionaries categories.

A well-illustrated--if too brief--catalog to the exhibition of the same title held at the Regenstein Library through summer 1990. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Anecdotal Narration And Encyclopedic Thought Of Pliny The Elder S Naturalis Historia

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Author : Ágnes Darab
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2020-04-16

The Anecdotal Narration And Encyclopedic Thought Of Pliny The Elder S Naturalis Historia written by Ágnes Darab and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-16 with Art categories.

Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia, with its varied content, enables and expects the reader to employ a complex interpretative technique. One aspect of Pliny’s diction is that he often interrupts the discussions of topics with digressions and begins to address something that seemingly has nothing to do with the subject. The hypothesis suggested by this book is that these digressions that occur in different places and in great number throughout the text of Naturalis Historia should not be regarded as mistakes fragmenting the encyclopedia’s structure. Most of these digressions are anecdotes. Researching the aetiological anecdotes, and those about the life of animals, famous persons from political or intellectual life, and the most important Greek painters and sculptors requires the application of different perspectives. When we approach anecdotes from the perspective of narrative techniques, the role of the stories as exempla becomes clearer, and its further aspects can be spotted. This book also draws attention to Pliny the writer, an aspect of the text that has been contested until very recently.

Varieties Of Encyclopedism In The Early Roman Empire

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Author : Daniel E. Harris-McCoy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008

Varieties Of Encyclopedism In The Early Roman Empire written by Daniel E. Harris-McCoy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.

Encyclopaedism From Antiquity To The Renaissance

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Author : Jason König
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-10-17

Encyclopaedism From Antiquity To The Renaissance written by Jason König and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-17 with Education categories.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Jason Konig and Greg Woolf; Part I. Classical Encyclopaedism: 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 Andres Nemeth; 12. Ad maiorem Dei gloriam: Joseph Rhakendys' 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 Andrew 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 encyclpaedia: some observations D.C. Andersson; 20. Reading 'Pliny's Ape' in the Renaissance: the Polyhistor of Cai++.

Pliny S Catalogue Of Culture

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Author : Sorcha Carey
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2003-12-19

Pliny S Catalogue Of Culture written by Sorcha Carey and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-19 with Literary Collections categories.

One of the earliest surviving examples of 'art history', Pliny the Elder's 'chapters on art' form part of his encyclopaedic Natural History, completed shortly before its author died during the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. This important new work argues that the Natural History offers a sophisticated account of the world as empire, in which art as much as geography can be used to expound a Roman imperial agenda. Reuniting the 'chapters on art' with the rest of the Natural History, Sorcha Carey considers how the medium of the 'encyclopaedia' affects Pliny's presentation of art, and reveals how art is used to explore themes important to the work as a whole. Throughout, the author demonstrates that Pliny's 'chapters on art' are a profoundly Roman creation, offering an important insight into responses to art and culture under the early Roman empire.

Pliny The Elder S Natural History

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Author : Trevor Murphy
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2004-03-11

Pliny The Elder S Natural History written by Trevor Murphy and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-11 with Literary Criticism categories.

The most important surviving encyclopedia from the ancient world, Pliny the Elder's Natural History is unparalleled as a guide to the cultural meanings of everyday things in first-century Rome. As part of a new direction in classical scholarship, Trevor Murphy reads the work not just for the information it contains, but to understand how and why Pliny collects and presents information as he does. Concentrating on the geographic and ethnographic information in Pliny, Murphy demonstrates the work's political importance. The selection and arrangement of the encyclopedia's material show that it is more than an instrument of reference: it is a monument to the power of Roman imperial society.

A Companion To Ramon Llull And Llullism

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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-10-16

A Companion To Ramon Llull And Llullism written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-16 with Philosophy categories.

A survey of the work of the Majorcan lay theologian and philosopher Ramon Llull (1232-1316), along with examples of its wide influence in late medieval, Renaissance, and early modern Europe and in colonial Spanish America.

Mathematics In Postmodern American Fiction

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Author : Stuart J. Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
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Mathematics In Postmodern American Fiction written by Stuart J. Taylor and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.

From The Tree To The Labyrinth

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Author : Umberto Eco
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2014-02-25

From The Tree To The Labyrinth written by Umberto Eco and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-25 with Literary Collections categories.

How we create and organize knowledge is the theme of this major achievement by Umberto Eco. Demonstrating once again his inimitable ability to bridge ancient, medieval, and modern modes of thought, he offers here a brilliant illustration of his longstanding argument that problems of interpretation can be solved only in historical context.

Myth As Argument

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Author : Laurie L. Patton
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2014-05-14

Myth As Argument written by Laurie L. Patton and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-14 with Religion categories.

RGVV (History of Religion: Essays and Preliminary Studies) brings together the mutually constitutive aspects of the study of religion(s)—contextualized data, theory, and disciplinary positioning—and engages them from a critical historical perspective. The series publishes monographs and thematically focused edited volumes on specific topics and cases as well as comparative work across historical periods from the ancient world to the modern era.