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Daily Living in the Twelfth Century, Based on the Observations of Alexander Neckam in London and Paris
This is a book for all who are curious to know how it was to live in another time. It presents a new approach to the study of medieval life: first, it concentrates on a 50-year period, 1150-1200, not making the usual broad generalizations about the Middle Ages as though they were a single, homogeneous era; second, it presents medieval life through the experience of a medieval man. The reader goes on a journey with Alexander Neckham, rides the amounts he rode, lodges at hospices such as might have received him, walks the streets of London and Paris as Alexander found them, and visits the schools and baronial estates that he might have visited. Mr. Holmes draws steadily upon his wide, varied, and accurate knowledge of medieval literature -- Latin, French, and English -- to say nothing of iconography, painting, and architecture. The reader has a sense of being guided by two men familiar with the ground, one a medieval man, the other a modern expert. - Back cover.
Alexandri Neckam De Naturis Rerum Libri Duo
Reprint of the original, first published in 1863.
De Naturis Rerum, Libri Duo
Published in 1863, these texts illuminate twelfth-century scientific knowledge and theology in prose and verse form.
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Nature, Virtue, and the Boundaries of Encyclopaedic Knowledge
Can - and should - an encyclopedia be a repository of all knowledge? Does the idea of total encyclopedic knowledge constitute a boon for readers, or is it a labyrinthine nightmare? This book explores the pleasures and paradoxes of encyclopedism, viewed through the interpretative lenses of the works of Alexander Neckam (1157-1217), an English Augustinian canon and scholar. Neckam wrote not just one but two encyclopedias: the prose De naturis rerum ('On the natures of things') and the verse Laus sapientie divine ('Praise of divine wisdom'). Poised between the end of the 'renaissance' of the twelfth century and the scholasticism-inspired thirteenth century, Neckam invites us into an unfamiliar ...
