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speculum-literature

speculum-literature is the alternative form of speculum literature.

Meaning of speculum literature

Noun

speculum literature or (rare) speculum literature (uncountable)

  1. (rare) A medieval literary genre, popular from the 12th through the 16th centuries, inspired by the urge to encompass encyclopedic knowledge within a single work.
    • Mirror or speculum literature, as Jourda and Cottrell have noted, can be traced back through medieval tradition to Augustinian, Biblical and Platonic sources.1989, Paula Sommers, “Le Miroir: Biblical Ascent”, in Celestial Ladders: Readings in Marguerite de Navarre’s Poetry of Spiritual Ascent, Geneva: Librairie Droz S.A., →ISBN, page 50

Questions about speculum-literature

What is speculum-literature the alternative form of?
Speculum-literature is the alternative form of speculum literature.

Words near speculum-literature in the dictionary

  1. specullectors
  2. speculoos
  3. speculum
  4. speculum literature
  5. speculum metal
  6. speculum-literature
  7. speculums
  8. specutively
  9. sped
  10. sped up
  11. speddest

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