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Isidore of Seville – Reader of Solinus [PDF]

open access: yesBucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2013
This paper focuses on examining how in his Etymologiae sive Origines Isidore of Seville makes use of the lexis that describes marvellous phenomena. This lexis was borrowed to some extent from Solinus’ Collectanea rerum memorabilium.
Anca Crivăţ
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Aristocratic identification in Felix’s Life of Guthlac

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 3, Page 435-457, August 2026.
Recent scholarship often sees high‐born monastics and clerics in early Christian England as part of the aristocratic class. Modern identity theories, however, suggest that social identity could be dynamic, situational, processual and discursive. In light of this concept, the present article reads Felix’s Life of Guthlac as a text that constructs an ...
Lek Hang Chan
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Etymologia: Leishmaniasis

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2008
Disease caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania, named in 1901 for British Army doctor William Leishman, who developed a stain to detect the agent. It is transmitted by the bite of certain species of sand fly, including the genus Lutzomyia in the New World and Phlebotomus in the Old World.
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ĖTUDE DU SIGNE « PIED-DE-MOUCHE » DANS LE MANUSCRIT ARSENAL 3489 [PDF]

open access: yesStudii si Cercetari Filologice: Seria Limbi Romanice, 2014
Selon Etymologiae d’Isidore de Séville, les signes symétriques paragraphuspositura ont pour fonction d’encadrer la parole d’autrui. En terme de codicologie, le piedde-mouche (¶), qui dérive du latin médiéval paragraphus, est défini comme signe marquant ...
Huei-Chen LI
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 275-298, May 2026.
This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
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Philosophemes in the First Book of De Differentiis Verborum of Isidore of Seville [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2013
Because of the paucity of purely philosophical texts produced during the early Middle Ages, the history of philosophy is forced to look for philosophy in texts actually belonging to other branches of thought.
Sergey Vorontsov
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Compétences et évaluation chez Juan de Mariana : la censure de la Bible Polyglotte d’Anvers (Plantin, 1572) supervisée par Benito Arias Montano

open access: yesE-Spania, 2019
Le jésuite Juan de Mariana, prédicateur et enseignant de renom, docteur en théologie, fut l’un des maîtres d’œuvre du projet d’édition des Etymologiæ d’Isidore de Séville et le collaborateur de Gaspar de Quiroga pour l'élaboration de l’Index de 1583.
Renaud Malavialle
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The rulership of Pippin I of Aquitaine

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 545-571, November 2025.
This article uses the reign of Pippin I of Aquitaine (d. 838) as a case study for the historiographical concept of ‘sub‐rulership’ in Carolingian Francia. It unpicks how Pippin’s status varied over time, arguing that Pippin’s rulership represents well the tension between kingship as an office and as a dynastic status.
Eddie Meehan
wiley   +1 more source

Preliminary comments on the genesis of the concept of natural law in the approach taken by St. Isidore of Seville

open access: yesActa Iuris Stetinensis
The aim of this study is to discuss information on the origins of natural law (ius naturale) in Etymologiae (Etymologiarum sive Originarum libri XX) written by St. Isidore of Seville (d. 636).
Bartosz Zalewski
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I, monster: queerness and the Liber Monstrorum in early medieval St Gall

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 543-564, November 2024.
This article analyses a ninth‐century copy of the Liber monstrorum from St Gall in which the first monster, a ‘human of both sexes’, speaks in the first person. The scribe also put the Liber monstrorum into dialogue with Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae, in which Isidore argued that monsters were not ‘contrary to nature’.
Michael Eber
wiley   +1 more source

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