SourcEncyMe (SOURCes des ENCYclopédies MEdievales) develops a corpus of medieval Latin encyclopedias and gradually identifies the Greek, Arabic and Latin sources of scientific and philosophical thought, sources drawn by encyclopaedists in the preceding centuries. SourcEncyMe is devoted to the history of the transmission of Greek, Arabic and Latin texts conveyed by Latin encyclopedic compilations, mainly in the 13th century, when the effort to assimilate ancient and Arabic knowledge was most important in the world. western history. Later encyclopedias are also treated progressively, when they reuse those of the 13th century. The objective of the SourcEncyMe program is therefore to put online and treat in an erudite way all this heritage of medieval knowledge that at the time was grouped under the name of "philosophy", "theology", or even " history" (including hagiography and classical authors). However, the project places particular emphasis on natural philosophy, that is, on the science of nature. SourcEncyMe should constitute a reference tool to know the learned library of the “Century of encyclopaedism” (1180-1280) and beyond, and to highlight the techniques of medieval compilation by successive layers of information and by citation. The phenomenon of quotation is indeed massive in encyclopedias, where it sometimes constitutes more than 90% of the material. This is the reason why we have divided the corpus into “citation units” going from one medieval reference to another, that is to say from one “source marker” to another. - [Web site]

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