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473:, in seventeen books and 2,374 chapters, is intended to be a practical manual for the student and the official alike; and, to fulfil this object, it treats of the mechanic arts of life as well as the subtleties of the scholar, the duties of the prince and the tactics of the general. It is a summary of all the scholastic knowledge of the age and does not confine itself to natural history. It treats of logic, rhetoric, poetry, geometry, astronomy, the human instincts and passions, education, the industrial and mechanical arts, anatomy, surgery and medicine, jurisprudence and the administration of justice. 27: 450: 704:(xxiv.). Vincent's Charlemagne is a curious medley of the great emperor of history and the champion of romance. He is at once the gigantic eater of Turpin, the huge warrior eight feet high, who could lift the armed knight standing on his open hand to a level with his head, the crusading conqueror of Jerusalem in the days before the crusades, and yet with all this the temperate drinker and admirer of St Augustine, as his character had filtered down through various channels from the historical pages of 155: 621: 720:
is Vincent's constant habit of devoting several chapters to selections from the writings of each great author, whether sacred or profane, as he mentions him in the course of his work. The extracts from Cicero and Ovid, Origen and St John Chrysostom, Augustine and Jerome are but specimens of a useful
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Books v.–xiv. treat of the sea and the dry land: the discourse of the seas, the ocean and the great rivers, agricultural operations, metals, precious stones, plants, herbs with their seeds, grains and juices, trees wild and cultivated, their fruits and their saps. Under each species, where possible,
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Book xvi. is given up to mathematics, under which head are included music, geometry, astronomy, astrology, weights and measures, and metaphysics. It is noteworthy that in this book, Vincent shows a knowledge of the Arabic numerals, though he does not call them by this name. With him, the unit is
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Books vii.–ix. have reference to the political arts: they contain rules for the education of a prince and a summary of the forms, terms and statutes of canonical, civil and criminal law. Book xi. is devoted to the mechanical arts, of weavers, smiths, armourers, merchants, hunters, and even the
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The first book opens with the mysteries of God and the angels, and then passes on to the works of the six days and the creation of man. It includes dissertations on the various vices and virtues, the different arts and sciences, and carries down the history of the world to the sojourn in
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are discussed in books ii. and iii., the latter including several well-known fables, such as the lion and the mouse. Book iv. treats of the virtues, each of which has two chapters of quotations allotted to it, one in prose and the other in verse. Book v. is of a somewhat similar
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Book xxv. includes the first crusade, and in the course of book xxix., which contains an account of the Tatars, the author enters on what is almost contemporary history, winding up in book xxxi. with a short narrative of the crusade of St Louis in
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Vincent de Beauvais worked on his compendium for approximately 29 years (1235-1264) in the pursuit of presenting a compendium of all of the knowledge available at the time. He collected the materials for the work from libraries around the
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of France. The metaphor of the title has been argued to "reflect" the microcosmic relations of Medieval knowledge. In this case, the book mirrors "both the contents and organization of the cosmos". Vincent himself stated that he chose
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With book vi., we enter on the practical part of the work: it gives directions for building, gardening, sowing and reaping, rearing cattle and tending vineyards; it includes also a kind of agricultural almanac for each month in the
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was rarely copied in full, with the possibility of only two complete sets of a tripartite copy surviving today. Beyond the labour involved in copying manuscripts, one historian has argued that such separation of the
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in 1624 and was reprinted in 1964/65 in Graz. While Beauvais had plans to write this book there is no historical record of its content. However, after 1300 a compilation was created and attributed to be part of the
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In the chapters devoted to the origins of Britain, he relies on the Brutus legend, but cannot carry his catalogue of British or English kings further than 735, where he honestly confesses that his authorities fail
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Books xii.–xiv. deal with medicine both in practice and in theory: they contain practical rules for the preservation of health according to the four seasons of the year and treat of various diseases from fever to
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The remaining four books seem more or less supplementary; the last (xxxii.) is a summary of geography and history down to the year 1250, when the book seems to have been given to the world, perhaps along with
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Books iii. and iv. deal with the phenomena of the heavens and of time, which is measured by the motions of the heavenly bodies, with the sky and all its wonders, fire, rain, thunder, dew, winds, etc.
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Vincent gives a chapter on its use in medicine, and he adopts for the most part an alphabetical arrangement. In book ix., he gives an early instance of the use of the magnet in navigation.
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alone no less than 350 distinct works are cited, and to these must be added at least 100 more for the other two sections. His reading ranges from philosophers to naturalists including
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Books xviii.–xxii. deal in a similar way with domesticated and wild animals, including the dog, serpents, bees and insects. Book xx also includes descriptions of fantastic
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from around 1235 to around the time of his death in 1264. During this period, it was first completed in 1244 and then expanded in a second version in 1259 or 1260.
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shows that, while heavily extracted, the compiler made conscious decisions about the placement of parts and also redirected the meaning of certain passages.
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occupies a great part of book xv.; and book xvi. gives an account of Daniel's nine kingdoms, in which account Vincent differs from his professed authority,
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was due in part to medieval readers not recognizing the work to be organized as a whole. The circulation of the four parts accordingly varied. While
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The next eleven books ii.–xii. conduct us through sacred and secular history down to the triumph of Christianity under Constantine. The story of
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is the large space devoted to miracles. Four of the medieval historians from whom he quotes most frequently are Sigebert of Gembloux,
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The last book (xvii.) treats of theology or mythology, and winds up with an account of the Holy Scriptures and of the Fathers, from
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Books xvi. and xvii. treat of fowls and fishes, mainly in alphabetical order and with reference to their medical qualities.
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saw renewed interest since it was easier to reproduce such a sizeable work. Accordingly, there were five editions of the
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custom which reaches its culminating point in book xxviii., which is devoted entirely to the writings of St Bernard.
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authors, with the sources given. Vincent distinguishes, however, his own remarks. Vincent de Beauvais began work on
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genre of texts that are commentaries on the six days of creation. Additional generic connections come from
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Book i., after defining philosophy, etc., gives a long Latin vocabulary of some 6,000 or 7,000 words.
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differs from Helinand's work because it did not use chronology as a primary system of organization.
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Varieties of Encyclopedism in the Early Roman Empire: Vitruvius, Pliny the Elder, Artemidorus
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Schooling and Society: The Ordering and Reordering of Knowledge in the Western Middle Ages
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Researchers have accounted for approximately 250–350 different manuscript copies of the
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of man, the five senses and their organs, sleep, dreams, ecstasy, memory, reason, etc.
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and its relation to creation; then follows a similar series of chapters about
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for its name because his work contains "whatever is worthy of contemplation (
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Two royal visits to respectively the author and translator of Vincent's
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in varying degrees of completion. This is due to the fact that the
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Book xv. deals with physics and may be regarded as a summary of
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The number of writers quoted by Vincent is substantial: in the
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Reading the World: Encyclopedic Writing in the Scholastic Age
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was by far the most popular part to be copied within Europe,
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The original structure of the work consisted of three parts:
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Book xv. deals with astronomy: the moon, the stars, the
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Miniature of Vincent of Beauvais in a manuscript of the
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and his fallen angels and the work of the first day.
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Vincent of Beauvais
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Encyclopedia
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encyclopedia
Middle Ages
Vincent of Beauvais
13th century
14th century
Thomas Aquinas
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British Library
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Dominican order
King Louis IX
speculum literature
Thomas Aquinas
Stephen de Bourbon
Genesis
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hexameron
Hélinand of Froidmont
Isidore of Seville
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