speculum literature

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A medieval literary genre, popular from the 12th through the 16th centuries, inspired by the urge to encompass encyclopedic knowledge within a single work. rare,uncountable
    — Mirror or speculum literature, as Jourda and Cottrell have noted, can be traced back through medieval tradition to Augustinian, Biblical and Platonic sources.

词形变化

speculum literature canonical Speculum literature alternative speculum-literature alternative

词源

From Latin speculum (“mirror”) in the title of these works.
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