A little-known monument of medieval encyclopedism Anonymous moralised encyclopedia «De proprietatibus rerum»
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https://doi.org/10.52575/2687-0967-2022-49-2-339-350Keywords:
medieval encyclopedias, moralizations, preachers, encyclopedismAbstract
The article is devoted to the study of a previously unstudied and unpublished source – the anonymous moralised encyclopedia «De proprietatibus rerum», belonging to the large corpus of unexplored medieval literature. The structure and content of the text, the structure of chapters, a set of sources are investigated. The encyclopedia is an important monument of medieval encyclopedism. It consists of 221 (225) chapters arranged in alphabetical order, and presents a wide range of natural information and their moral interpretations (moralizations). Based on the analysis of the manuscripts, the author assumes that there are several versions of the text of the encyclopedia. The text is also interesting with mentions of a wide range of categories of the medieval population. The encyclopedist has a very negative attitude towards the secular authorities and the rich, but is benevolent towards the clergy and the poor. It is also suggested that the text could have been created after 1331, and its readers could have been preachers.
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