encyclopaedism

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encyclopaedism - profound scholarly knowledge

encyclopedism, eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning, scholarship

education - knowledge acquired by learning and instruction; "it was clear that he had a very broad education"

letters - scholarly attainment; "he is a man of letters"

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They cover genres and literary history, encyclopaedism and oratory, tradition and poets of the epigram, occasional poetry and literary genres, models and transformations of the epos, war and generic tensions, and epic and other genres.

The Literary Genres in the Flavian Age: Canons, Transformations, Reception

Alexander Neckam (1157-1217) occupies a unique position in the history of encyclopaedism, writing at the turn of the thirteenth century when the Aristotelian natural philosophy was still becoming integrated into the Western academic corpus.

Nature, Virtue, and the Boundaries of Encyclopaedic Knowledge. The Tropological Universe of Alexander Neckam (1157-1217)

Encyclopaedism, Modernism and the Classification of Geographical Knowledge.

Steps towards an integrated eco-economy: the case of Randers, Denmark

(1997), "Patient and Impatient Encyclopaedism" in Pre-modern Encyclopaedic Texts, Peter Binkley (ed.), Leiden: Koninklijke Brill, 31-45.