The Atelier Vincent de Beauvais deals with medieval encyclopedias and transmission of knowledge. It investigates compilations that aim to comprehend all the bookish knowledge available : Imago mundi, De rerum natura, De proprietatibus rerum, Speculum, Flores rerum naturalium, thesaurus, etc. The workshop was founded in the late 1970s in a CNRS team in Nancy, France, during historical work on Vincent of Beauvais’ Speculum maius, therefore, it is eponymous of this prolific medieval encyclopedist, but the research carried out expands to all medieval encyclopaedias, with special emphasis on sources of natural philosophy.

Language: French