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Bede, Irish computistica and Annus Mundi [PDF]
, 2015 Bede's decision to diverge from the mainstream chronological tradition, based on the Septuagint, in favour of the Vulgate for chronology has generally been explained by his concerns about contemporary apocalypticism.
MacCarron, M.
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Meri-dies according to Latin authors from Cicero to Anthony of Padua : the various uses of a commonplace etymology [PDF]
, 2017 The etymology of meridies stands as a commonplace in the Latin literary tradition. The present article aims to expand on the evidence collected by Maltby in his 1991 A Lexicon of Ancient Latin Etymologies - primarily by extending its historical scope ...
Denecker, Tim
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Reportative evidentiality, attribution and epistemic modality: A corpus-based diachronic study of Latin secundum NP (‘according to NP’) [PDF]
, 2017 Based on data drawn from the Latin Library corpus, this paper discusses some previously under-researched meanings of the secundum NP construction and traces their evolution across a period of over 800 years.
Guardamagna, C
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Petrarca, il «vario stile» e l'idea di lirica
Carte Romanze, 2014 Il saggio analizza la diffusione della definizione di lirica contenuta nelle Etymologiae di Isidoro di Siviglia, che si fondava sulla varietà formale. Si cerca quindi di dimostrare: a) il legame fra tale “varietà lirica” e il «vario stile» del sonetto ...
Marco Grimaldi
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Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca Julio de Urquijo, 2019 Despite hesitation, the prevailing opinion among scholars today is that Isidore dedicated his masterpiece, Etymologiae, to the visigoth king Sisebuto (612-621). We are not entirely sure about such estimation and in this article we are aiming at providing
Valeriano Yarza Urquiola
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Un tratado de cómputo pascual visigótico transmitido al final del libro X de las «Etymologiae»
FaventiaUn tratado inédito con fórmulas para determinar las fechas de pascua cristianas a partir de la pascua de los judíos es transmitido por un conjunto de códices de las Etymologiae de Isidoro de Sevilla (Bern 224, Clm 4541, Montecassino 320, Groningen 8 ...
Inés Warburg
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Emerging 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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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 279-298, May 2019., 2019 This article offers an analysis of the possible sources that influenced the composition of the sole surviving set of Latin verses that were composed for the Anglo‐Saxon king Alfred the Great. In particular, a hitherto unrecognized textual model is identified, namely the ‘Sibylline acrostic’.
Robert Gallagher
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Isidore of Seville and the ius et lex formula – inspirations for a philosopher of law today
Acta Iuris StetinensisIsidore of Seville’s Etymologiae has always been a subject of interest to lawyers. This concerns in particular its chapter five: Laws and times. This article, however, points out that a different fragment of Etymologiae carries certain importance to ...
Jerzy Zajadło
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The terrestrial hydrologic cycle: an historical sense of balance
WIREs Water, Volume 4, Issue 4, July/August 2017., 2017 The ‘reverse hydrologic cycle’ as illustrated in the frontispiece of Johann Herbinius’ 1678, Dissertationes de Admirandis Mundi Cataractis Supra et Subterraneis. Herbinius assumed, as did most western scholars of natural history since Aristotle, that rainfall was not sufficient to produce the rivers of the world.
Christopher J Duffy
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