Speculum literature

The medieval genre of speculum literature, popular from the twelfth through the sixteenth centuries, was inspired by the urge to encompass encyclopedic knowledge within a single work.^[1] However, some of these works have a restricted scope and function as instructional manuals.^[2] In this sense, the encyclopedia and the speculum are similar but they are not the same genre.^[3]

^ Bradley, Ritamary (January 1954), "Backgrounds of the Title Speculum in Mediaeval Literature", Speculum, 29 (1): 100–115, doi:10.2307/2853870, JSTOR 2853870, S2CID 163144785.
^ Franklin-Brown, Mary (2012). Reading the world: encyclopedic writing in the scholastic age. Chicago London: The University of Chicago Press. p. 273. ISBN 9780226260709.
^ Franklin-Brown 2012, p. 273.

[1] Bradley, Ritamary (January 1954), "Backgrounds of the Title Speculum in Mediaeval Literature", Speculum, 29 (1): 100–115, doi:10.2307/2853870, JSTOR 2853870, S2CID 163144785.

[2] Franklin-Brown, Mary (2012). Reading the world: encyclopedic writing in the scholastic age. Chicago London: The University of Chicago Press. p. 273. ISBN 9780226260709.

[FOOTNOTEFranklin-Brown2012273-3] Franklin-Brown 2012, p. 273.

[1]

[2]

[3]