Property:Subject
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*History (this includes chronology) | *History (this includes chronology) | ||
*Law | *Law | ||
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*Literature (this includes poetry, drama, romances) | *Literature (this includes poetry, drama, romances) | ||
*Logic | *Logic | ||
Revision as of 23:33, 9 August 2020
The property subject is used to flag the intellectual content of a book or books, using a standardised set of classifications.
Subjects are described in early books using variant terminology. The following descriptors are defined as the standardised forms used to tag subjects as Properties, when they occut:
- Art (this includes painting, drawing, perspective)
- Agriculture
- Alchemy
- Architecture
- Astrology
- Astronomy
- Botany
- Cartography (this includes maps)
- Classics
- Gardening (this includes horticulture and husbandry)
- Geography (this includes travel)
- Grammar
- Heraldry
- History (this includes chronology)
- Law
- Lexicography (includes dictionaries)
- Literature (this includes poetry, drama, romances)
- Logic
- Magic (this includes necromancy)
- Mathematics
- Medicine (this includes anatomy, surgery)
- Military affairs (this includes fortification, warfare manuals)
- Music
- Numismatics
- Orientalism
- Philology
- Philosophy
- Politics (includes current affairs)
- Rhetoric
- Science
- Theology (includes patristics, exegesis, devotional works, doctrinal and controversial theology)
- Veterinary practices