Speculum literature
Medieval literary genre / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The medieval genre of speculum literature, popular from the twelfth through the sixteenth centuries, was inspired by the urge to encompass encyclopedic knowledge within a single work.[1] However, some of these works have a restricted scope and function as instructional manuals.[2] In this sense, the encyclopedia and the speculum are similar but they are not the same genre.[3]