Reading the World: Encyclopedic Writing in the Scholastic Age

by Mary Franklin-Brown, Karla Krogsrud Miley, Brenda L. DuBois

The thirteenth century saw such a proliferation of new encyclopedic texts that more than one scholar has called it the "century of the encyclopedias." Variously referred to as a speculum , thesaurus ,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226260682
• ISBN13: 9780226260686
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.2" x 9.0"