Encyclopedists, medieval
Samuel Barnish
The modern encyclopedic genre was unknown in the classical world. In grammar-based culture of late antiquity, learned compendia, by both pagan and Christian writers, were organized around a text treated as sacred or canon seven liberal arts sciences, which seen preparatory to divine contemplation. Such heavily influenced Neoplatonism, helped unite traditions transmit learning, including Aristotelian logic, Middle Ages. Writers tradition include figures such Augustine Boethius, whom extremely influential throughout medieval period. Other important writers included Macrobius, whose Saturnalia spans very wide range subjects; Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii (The Marriage Philology Mercury) covers sciences; Cassiodorus, who presents leading towards comtemplation heavenly immaterial; Isidore, Etymologies became one most widely referred-to texts These also had strong influence can be later period, particularly Carolingian Renaissance again twelfth century.
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