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Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
: This paper surveys the presentation of astronomical knowledge in two encyclopedic writings of Isidore of Seville, Etymologies and On the Nature of Things , as a transformative episode in the history of early medieval astronomy.
Zongbei Huang
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: This paper surveys the presentation of astronomical knowledge in two encyclopedic writings of Isidore of Seville, Etymologies and On the Nature of Things , as a transformative episode in the history of early medieval astronomy.
Zongbei Huang
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God’s Librarian: Isidore of Seville and His Literary Agenda
A Companion to Isidore of Seville, 2019What I hope to show in the following pages is that Isidore of Seville, seen in the mirror of his own words, aimed not to become catechist to centuries of priests and monks, nor indeed to achieve any great stylistic or generic innovation as such, but to ...
Graham Barrett
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Isidore of Seville on the Course of the Nile
Acta Classica:At first glance, the description Isidore of Seville gives of the course of the Nile in his Etymologiae seems both insufficient and erroneous, especially as he says the river turns south before entering Egypt. Reference to a modern map only compounds the
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Presence of Augustine of Hippo in Isidore of Seville : Some Provisional Remarks
Framing Power in Visigothic Society, 2020Augustine of Hippo is the most quoted author by Isidore of Seville. Isidore uses Augustine in all his works, without exception, and he knows at least 53 of Augustine’s works.
J. Elfassi
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Hoccleve's Complaint and Isidore of Seville
Speculum, 1970The Complaint is the first part of what is known as the Series.2 Hoccleve laments that although he has been cured of a period of madness, his friends will not recognize his cure, and avoid him and talk behind his back. His social estrangement leads to psychological problems.
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The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville
2006This work is a complete English translation of the Latin Etymologies of Isidore, Bishop of Seville (c.560–636). Isidore compiled the work between c.615 and the early 630s and it takes the form of an encyclopedia, arranged by subject matter. It contains much lore of the late classical world beginning with the Seven Liberal Arts, including Rhetoric, and ...
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