Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-421) and indexes.
Part I. The archive: The book of the world: encyclopedism and scholastic ways of knowing -- Part II. The order of the encyclopedia: Narrative and natural history: the organization of the Speculum maius; The obscure figures of the encyclopedia: tree paradigms in the Arbor scientiae; The order of nature: Encyckioedic arrangement and poetic recombination in Jean de Meun's continuation of the Roman de la Rose -- Part III. Heterotopias: A fissured mirror: the Speculum maius as heterotopia; The phoenix in the mirror: the encyclopedic subject
The archive -- The book of the world: encyclopedism and scholastic ways of knowing -- The order of the encyclopedia -- Narrative and natural history: the organization of the Speculum maius -- The obscure figures of the encyclopedia: tree paradigms in the Arbor scientiae -- Metaphor in the mirror of nature: nature's speech in the Roman de la rose -- Heterotopias -- A fissured mirror: the Speculum maius as heterotopia -- The phoenix in the mirror: the encyclopedic subject