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Looking up music in two ‘encyclopedias’ printed in 1501
Abstract A modern user of a printed encyclopedia expects to find concise entries on a wide range of subjects organised alphabetically for ease of reference. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries a number of scholarly texts of a particularly long and wide‐ranging character were essentially ‘encyclopedized’ through the provision of compendious subject
Tim Shephard, Charlotte Hancock
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Philosophemes in the First Book of De Differentiis Verborum of Isidore of Seville [PDF]
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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Psalmos, notas, cantus: On the Meanings of nota in the Carolingian Period [PDF]
The Latin quotation in the title of this article is taken from the Admonitio generalis, a key document of Charlemagne's reforms circulated in 789. In a well-known passage, to which the title refers, Charlemagne calls for the establishment of schools and ...
Evina Steinova
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Contradictions over the meaning of adoration (adoratio) in Theodulf of Orléans’ Opus Caroli regis contra synodum have been used to minimize the role of mistranslation in the late eighth‐century Greek–Latin dispute over images. This study, however, scrutinizes the contested meaning of adoration in the original manuscript to expose tensions among ...
Huw Foden
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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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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 Carolingian cocio: on the vocabulary of the early medieval petty merchant
The word cocio (i.e. petty merchant or broker in classical Latin) was a rare term that after a long absence in written Latin reappeared in several Carolingian texts. Scholars have posited a medieval semantic shift from ‘merchant’ to ‘vagabond’. But this article argues that this consensus is erroneous.
Shane Bobrycki
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The Censor's Rod: Textual Criticism, Judgment and Canon Formation in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages [PDF]
This article explores how the ancient graphic symbol of the obelus changed from being an instrument of textual criticism to a tool of censure between c.
Irene van Renswoude
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Isidore of Seville (560-636) is rightly considered to be one of the most important teachers of the medieval Europe. He wrote numerous didactic works on catholic doctrine, biblical exegesis, history, grammar, natural sciences etc.
Tatiana Krynicka
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Isidoro di Siviglia:La vis verbi come riflesso dell' onnipotenza divina. [PDF]
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Valastro Canale, Angelo
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