Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-256) and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Michael W Twomey -- Rabanus Maurus and his sources / Bill Schipper -- Quaestiones and encyclopedias : some aspects of the late medieval reception of Pseudo-Aristotelian problemata in encyclopedic and scientific culture / Iolanda Ventura -- The Macrologus of Liè€ge : an encyclopedic lexicon at the dawn of humanism / Baudouin Van den Abeele -- The Noble Lyfe : an Early English version of the Hortus Sanitatis / L.A.J.R. Houwen -- Inventing the encyclopedia / Michael W Twomey -- On the connection between epistemology and encyclopedic Ordo in the Middle Ages and the early modem period / Christel Meier -- The changing face of centres of learning 1400-1700 / Hilde de Ridder-Symoens -- changes in the educational context of the Leuven Faculty of Theology in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries : canon law and humanism / Dirk Claes -- Semiramis in Grand Rhetoriqueur writing / Adrian Armstrong -- The rise and fall of the sibyls in Renaissance France / Jennifer Britnell -- Saint Ann in crisis / Ann Moss -- Paradigms lost : perceptions of the cultural history of sixteenth-century Scotland / Theo van Heijnsbergen -- When did the Middle Ages end? : reflections of an intellectual historian / Marcia L. Colish
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