Are you a polyhistor?
However now I find that there are actually many different titles that apply to me and I'm at a loss to determine just which is the best to apply. Perhaps you can help me decide after you learn more about just what being a polyhistor means!
What is a polyhistor?
A polyhistor is a person of great erudition whose knowledge spans many fields. The definition includes having both an expert level of knowledge in diverse specific fields and broad general knowledge. Arguably a polyhistor is one possible type of polymath. See the article polymath for a broader discussion.
The term has been used in a pejorative sense to mock "the erudite compilers who had loaded seventeenth-century bookshelves to breaking point with their huge folios" and their "ridiculous efforts to capture all knowledge in single encyclopedias or treatises."Anthony Grafton, "The World of the Polyhistors: Humanism and Encyclopedism" in Grafton, Bring Out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation (Harvard University Press, 2001: ISBN 067400468X), p. 166.
Calling All Polyhistors!
If you are a polyhistor lensmaster (or polymath, or homo universalis, or renaissance person) then you are hereby invited to join the group just for lensmasters like us!-
The Renaissance Group Headquarters
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Deanna Mascle
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I know you really want to read every word that I've ever written but I'm not about to put the full text of my novels on line and cannot get copies of all the newspaper and magazine articles I've written, but I can share my articles, ezines, newslette...
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Who Is Deanna Mascle
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Deanna Mascle has many professional roles -- student and teacher, writer and reader -- as well as a full personal life involving family, friends, church and community.
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Renaissance Woman Online
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A Renaissance Woman is a woman (as opposed to a Renaissance Man) who has broad intellectual interests and that is definitely me! I am interested in all sorts of fields from business and marketing to writing and education. I love trivia and quotes too...
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RWO Lensography
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Hello, Rwoman here! I have created an awful lot of lenses. I hate to even number them as I'm constantly adding more new ones all the time. I have lenses in six broad areas: family, marketing, money, self improvement, trivia, and writing. This lensog...
Investigate My Many Fields Of Knowledge
Or at least the top 25...
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one word at a time
- dolorous: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
- dolorous: marked by, causing, or expressing grief or sorrow.
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