"Speculum literature" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1982, Herbert Grabes, “A typology of works bearing mirror-titles”, in The Mutable Glass: Mirror-Imagery in Titles and Texts of the Middle Ages and English Renaissance, Cambridge, Cambs: Cambridge University Press, published 2009, part one (The mirror as title-metaphor), chapter section c (Exemplary texts bearing mirror-titles), subsection iii (Admonitory and unmasking mirrors: the deterrent image), page 60",
          "text": "Berges’s view (p. 343) that this work stands outside the tradition of Speculum literature can only be valid for the mirrors preceding it; […]",
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          "ref": "1986, John V[incent] Fleming, “Garden of the Roman de la Rose: Vision of Landscape or Landscape of Vision?”, in Elisabeth Blair MacDougall, editor, Medieval Gardens, Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Trustees for Harvard University, page 227",
          "text": "His remarks on the medieval tradition of Speculum literature, into which he places the Roman, are, of course, intended to be suggestive rather than comprehensive; […]",
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          "ref": "1993, Kornél Szovák, “The Image of the Ideal King in Twelfth-Century Hungary (Remarks on the Legend of St Ladislas)”, in Anne Duggan, editor, Kings and Kingship in Medieval Europe, King’s College London Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, page 246",
          "text": "The saint king’s biographies, compiled in the court, and the Hungarian royal chronicle, compiled in different segments at different times, could both be classified as a form of Speculum literature.",
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