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Author Kenny, Neil

Title The palace of secrets : Béroalde de Verville and Renaissance conceptions of knowledge / Neil Kenny
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1991

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Description 1 online resource (x, 305 pages) : illustrations, maps
Summary Encyclopaedism proposed the organization of knowledge on an ordered and unified basis. Its tenets were gainsaid by Montaigne among others. Beroalde began his career as an encyclopaedist but gradually modified his views. Kenny uses his career as the focus of this study of Renaissance thought
Analysis Epistemology, history
Epistemology History
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-298) and index
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Subject Béroalde de Verville, 1556- -- Knowledge and learning
SUBJECT Béroalde de Verville, 1556- fast (OCoLC)fst01807812
Béroalde de Verville, François. swd
Subject Knowledge, Theory of -- History
Renaissance -- France
Intellectual life.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Learning and scholarship.
Renaissance.
Wissenschaftstheorie
Erkenntnistheorie
Kennistheorie.
Renaissance.
SUBJECT France -- Intellectual life -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051438
France -- Intellectual life -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051439
Subject France.
Frankreich
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191673313
0191673315