The Palace of Secrets: Beroalde de Verville and Renaissance Conceptions of Knowledge by Neil Kenny

The Palace of Secrets: Beroalde de Verville and Renaissance Conceptions of Knowledge

Neil Kenny

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During the Renaissance, different conceptions of knowledge were debated. Dominant among these was encyclopaedism, which treated knowledge as an ordered and unified circle of learning in which branches were logically related to each other. By contr...

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