Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Explanatory Notes xv
6. Introduction 1
7. PART I. THE ARCHIVE
8. Introduction 29
9. Chapter 1. The Book of the World: Encyclopedism and Scholastic Ways of Knowing 33
10. PART II. THE ORDER OF THE ENCYCLOPEDIA
11. Introduction 93
12. Chapter 2. Narrative and Natural History: Vincent of Beauvais’s Ordo juxta Scripturam 95
13. Chapter 3. The Obscure Figures of the Encyclopedia: Tree Paradigms in the Arbor scientiae 129
14. Chapter 4. The Order of Nature: Encyclopedic Arrangement and Poetic Recombination in Jean de Meun’s Continuation of the Roman de la Rose 183
15. PART III. HETEROTOPIAS
16. Introduction 215
17. Chapter 5. A Fissured Mirror: The Speculum maius as Heterotopia 221
18. Chapter 6. The Phoenix in the Mirror: The Encyclopedic Subject 263
19. Afterword 303
20. List of Abbreviations 311
21. Notes 315
22. Selected Bibliography 393
23. Index of Names and Titles 423
24. Index of Manuscripts 435
25. General Index 439