John Trevisa's Information Age: Knowledge and the Pursuit of Literature, C. 1400

by Emily Steiner

What would medieval English literature look like if we viewed it through the lens of the compendium? In that case, John Trevisa might come into focus as the major author of the fourteenth century. Trevisa (d. 1402) made a career of translating big informational texts from Latin into English prose. These included Ranulph Higden's Polychronicon, an enormous universal history, Bartholomaeus Anglicus's well-known natural encyclopedia De proprietatibus...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192896903
• ISBN13: 9780192896902
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.5" x 6.6"