speculum literature
nounEtymology
From Latin speculum (“mirror”) in the title of these works.
Definitions
A medieval literary genre, popular from the 12th through the 16th centuries, inspired by…
A medieval literary genre, popular from the 12th through the 16th centuries, inspired by the urge to encompass encyclopedic knowledge within a single work.
- Mirror or speculum literature, as Jourda and Cottrell have noted, can be traced back through medieval tradition to Augustinian, Biblical and Platonic sources.
Alternative letter-case form of speculum literature.
- Berges’s view (p. 343) that this work stands outside the tradition of Speculum''' literature can only be valid for the mirrors preceding it; […]
- His remarks on the medieval tradition of Speculum''' literature, into which he places the Roman, are, of course, intended to be suggestive rather than comprehensive; […]
- The saint king’s biographies, compiled in the court, and the Hungarian royal chronicle, compiled in different segments at different times, could both be classified as a form of Speculum''' literature.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for speculum literature. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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