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John Trevisa's information age : knowledge and the pursuit of literature, c. 1400 / Emily Steiner.
Van Pelt Library PR2148.T7 Z87 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Steiner, Emily, author.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in medieval literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Trevisa, John, -1402.
- English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
- Reference books--History--To 1500.
- Reference books.
- English literature--Middle English.
- English literature--Old English.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Trevisa, John, -1402--Influence.
- Trevisa, John.
- History.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Paris in Gloucestershire
- An Information Age
- The Paris of the West
- Knowledge and the Pursuit of Literature
- 2. Big Form: Trevisa's Vernacular Megagenre
- Compendious Genres
- Personal Information
- My Aristotle
- Compendious Theories
- 3. Radical Historiography: Langland, Trevisa, and the Polychronicon
- Everyone's Favorite Historian
- Translation as History: Trevisa's "Dialogue between a Lord and a Clerk"
- Everyone's a Critic: Trevisa's Radical Historiography
- Langland's Radical Historiography
- 4. Alphabetical Logic: John Trevisa's Index to the Polychronicon and the English Concordance to the Bible
- Alphabetizing before Trevisa
- Indexical Dysfunction: Trevisa's English Index
- From Modern to Medieval: Caxton's Index to the Polychronicon
- Alphabetizing after Wyclif: The English Concordance to the Bible
- 5. Encyclopedic Style: On the Properties of Things
- Encyclopedic Aesthetics
- Accumulating Prose
- Lyrical Encyclopedism
- Emotional Life
- 6. Encyclopedic Verse and Vernacular Science: The Book of Sydrac
- French Connections
- Scientific Style
- Encyclopedic Theology
- Encyclopedic Poetics
- Roundness
- 7. Holy Encyclopedism: Stephen Batman's Middle Ages
- Hard Words
- Properties Lost and Found.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0192896903
- 9780192896902
- OCLC:
- 1243966506
- Publisher Number:
- 99988729567
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