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speculum-literature en · NOUN

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  1. (alt-of, alternative, rare, uncountable) Alternative form of speculum literature.
    • In this medieval tradition this science’s ethical-political function was emphasised; thus it became part of speculum'''-literature. 2006, Rhoda Schnur, Perrine Galand-Hallyn, editors, Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Bonnensis: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies, Bonn, 3–9 August, 2003, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, →ISBN, page 159:
    • This speculum-literature did, of course, not disappear at once in the 16th century. 1871, A[ntonius] van der Linde, translated by J[an] H[endrik] Hessels, “Speculum nostræ Salutis”, in The Haarlem Legend of the Invention of Printing by Lourens Janszoon Coster, Critically Examined […], London: Blades, East, & Blades, […], page 84:
    • This evokes the medieval tradition of speculum'''-literature with its strong didactic slant. 2007, Cordula Politis, The Individualization of Fortune in the Sixteenth-Century Novels of Jorg Wickram: The Beginnings of the Modern Narrative in German Literature, Lewiston, N.Y.; Queenston, Ont.; Lampeter, Ceredigion: The Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, page 86: