The Palace of Secrets: Beroalde de Verville and Renaissance Conceptions of Knowledge - Kenny, Neil (Lecturer in French, Department of French, Lecturer in French, Department of French, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London) - Books - Oxford University Press - 9780198158622 - July 25, 1991
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The Palace of Secrets: Beroalde de Verville and Renaissance Conceptions of Knowledge

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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.


318 pages, 6 halftones

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released July 25, 1991
ISBN13 9780198158622
Publishers Oxford University Press
Pages 318
Dimensions 145 × 222 × 24 mm   ·   603 g
Language English  

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