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Petrarca, il «vario stile» e l'idea di lirica

open access: yesCarte 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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Isidore of Seville and the ius et lex formula – inspirations for a philosopher of law today

open access: yesActa Iuris Stetinensis
Isidore 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 glosses to the first book of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville [excel datasheet]

open access: yes, 2021
This excel file contains the raw data behind the digital scholarly edition of the glosses to the first book of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville published at: https://db.innovatingknowledge.nl ...
Evina Steinova
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Isidore of Seville and his “codification” of law (etym. 5.1-27)

open access: yesActa Iuris Stetinensis
In the first part of chapter V of Etymologiae, Isidore of Seville collects and discusses the most important issues pertaining to law and justice.
Maciej Jońca
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King Alfred and the Sibyl: sources of praise in the Latin acrostic verses of Bern, Burgerbibliothek, 671

open access: yesEarly 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
wiley   +1 more source

The terrestrial hydrologic cycle: an historical sense of balance

open access: yesWIREs 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
wiley   +1 more source

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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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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Aristocratic identification in Felix’s Life of Guthlac

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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