Speculum literature

See also: speculum literature and speculum-literature

English

Noun

Speculum literature (uncountable)

1. Alternative letter-case form of speculum literature.
   • 1982, Herbert Grabes, “A typology of works bearing mirror-titles”, in The Mutable Glass: Mirror-Imagery in Titles and Texts of the Middle Ages and English Renaissance, Cambridge, Cambs: Cambridge University Press, published 2009, →ISBN, part one (The mirror as title-metaphor), chapter section c (Exemplary texts bearing mirror-titles), subsection iii (Admonitory and unmasking mirrors: the deterrent image), page 60:

     Berges’s view (p. 343) that this work stands outside the tradition of Speculum literature can only be valid for the mirrors preceding it; […]

   • 1986, John V[incent] Fleming, “Garden of the Roman de la Rose: Vision of Landscape or Landscape of Vision?”, in Elisabeth Blair MacDougall, editor, Medieval Gardens, Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Trustees for Harvard University, →ISBN, page 227:

     His remarks on the medieval tradition of Speculum literature, into which he places the Roman, are, of course, intended to be suggestive rather than comprehensive; […]

   • 1993, Kornél Szovák, “The Image of the Ideal King in Twelfth-Century Hungary (Remarks on the Legend of St Ladislas)”, in Anne Duggan, editor, Kings and Kingship in Medieval Europe, King’s College London Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, →ISBN, page 246:

     The saint king’s biographies, compiled in the court, and the Hungarian royal chronicle, compiled in different segments at different times, could both be classified as a form of Speculum literature.