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, 2013 Isidore (ca. 560–636 CE) was bishop of Seville, metropolitan bishop of the ecclesiastical province of Baetica, and advisor to the Visigothic kings of Spain in the first third of the seventh century. However, most importantly, he was the outstanding intellectual of early medieval Spain and played a central role in the transmission of much classical and ...
Jamie Wood (17170327)
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Isidore of Seville: Historical Contexts
, 2019 [EN] In the middle of the 8th century, the author of what is now called the Mozarabic Chronicle of 754 stressed the importance of the council called in Toledo during the third year of Sisenand’s reign, and noted the presence of Isidore and Braulio.25 This was the Fourth Council of Toledo, held in 633, at which Isidore played an important role.
Castellanos García, Santiago Miguel
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A Companion to Isidore of Seville
, 2019 A Companion to Isidore of Seville presents nineteen chapters from leading international scholars on Isidore of Seville (d. 636), the most prominent bishop of the Visigothic kingdom in Hispania in the seventh century and one of the most prolific authors of early medieval western Europe.
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Archeo-Inspiration from the Cultural History of Glass: Historic Accounts, Anecdotes and Hard Facts as Challenges to Modern Material Science. [PDF]
Adv MaterGlass, historically valued for its purity and durability, has long inspired artists and societies. This article introduces the concept of “Archeo‐Inspiration”, drawing on cultural and historical contexts of glass to guide future material innovations.
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Isidore of Seville as an Historian
, 2019 The fact that Isidore and his contemporaries in Visigothic Spain did not compose histories of significant length and detail has led many scholars to judge 6th- and 7th-century Spain as something of a historiographical wasteland. For example, E.A. Thompson stated that Isidore: “could hardly have told us less, except by not writing at all”.
Jamie Wood (17170327)
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Isidore of Seville – Reader of Solinus [PDF]
Bucharest 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. This research therefore aims at checking the results of some previous studies which demonstrate the rationality of ...
Anca Crivăţ
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Brevitas in the writings of Isidore of Seville
, 2010 A large number of the works of Isidore of Seville were described by the author, by close contemporaries, or by subsequent users as being written with brevity. This paper seeks to understand why Isidore claimed to be writing with brevity so often and why brevity was such an important feature of writing in Visigothic Spain.
Jamie Wood (17170327)
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The Teaching of Isidore of Seville on Predestination
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2012 The views of Isidore of Seville on predestination are described based mainly on the thirtieth chapter of the second book of his De differentiis verborum and the sixth chapter of the third book of his Sententiae. A comparative analysis of the texts of Isidore with their sources follows.
Sergey Vorontsov
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, 2021 This excel file contains structured and formalized data about all surviving and identified early medieval Western manuscripts containing the text of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville, fully or partially.
Evina Steinova
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