Vincent of Beauvais
c. 1190-c. 1264
French encyclopedist who compiled one of the most wide-ranging reference works of the Middle Ages, with information on psychology, physiology, and other sciences. A...
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Vincent of Beauvais (ca. 1190-ca. 1264) was a Dominican cleric who took it upon himself to compile the Speculum majus, an encyclopedia of all human knowledge up to the time of Louis IX of France. An i...
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Vincent of Beauvais
Vincent of Beauvais