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Vincent of Beauvais (c. 1190–1264)| French scholar, encyclopedist, and Dominican priest. A chaplain to the court of Louis IX, he is remembered for his Speculum majus/Great Mirror 1220–44, a reference work summarizing contemporary knowledge on virtually every subject, including science, natural history, literature, and law. It also contained a history of the world from the creation. |
| It is noteworthy for its positive attitude to classical literature, which had undergone a period of eclipse in the preceding centuries. |
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| 31) Marialia were undoubtedly used by Vincent of Beauvais, when writing his miracles of the Virgin in the Speculum historiale, by Gil de Zamora, who took Soissons miracles from a Mariale and presented them in his Liber Mariae in clusters, maintaining Hugo's original order, and by Gautier de Coinci, who claimed to base his work on a book he found in his own monastery of St. The list of medieval thinkers interested specifically in the influence of Saturn includes: Bernardus Silvestris in The Cosmographia, also known as De Universitate mundi, Alanus ab Insulis in Anticlaudianus, Arnoldus Saxo in the encyclopedic De coelo et mundo, Vincent of Beauvais in Speculum Naturae and Bartolomeus Anglicus in another encyclopedic work, De proprietatibum rerum. The encyclopedists (Bartholomew, Vincent of Beauvais, etc. |
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