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Isidore of Seville on ius gentium: The View of a Theologian

, 2021
In this article, my objective is to provide an understanding of Isidore of Seville’s enormously influential definition of ius gentium in its own right.
B. Wauters
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Isidore of Seville On Medicine

1964
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Spanish bishop Isidore of Seville and his Etymologiae about the mythology of the ancient Greece and Rome

Prace Naukowe Uniwersytetu Humanistyczno-Przyrodniczego im Jana Długosza w Częstochowie Zeszyty Historyczne, 2021
Saint Isidore of Seville, the Spanish bishop and the Doctor of the Church was one of the most productive writers. Etymologiarum libri XX is the most important and the best known work written by him.
K. Chmielewska
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Isidore of Seville's composite anecdote about Corinthian bronze and the editing of the classical past

Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies
Isidore of Seville incorporated a composite anecdote about the origins of Corinthian bronze into his Etymologies. His version combines elements from Petronius’ Satyrica, Pliny’s Natural History, and Orosius’ Seven Books of History Against the Pagans ...
Henry Gruber
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The colours of the rainbow … not so pretty in the sky: Isidore of Seville and the colours of faith

Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association
Every school student has learned some mnemonic by which to remember the order of the seven colours of the rainbow as identified in the seventeenth century by Isaac Newton. In the early medieval world, rainbows were presented as drabber than that.
Geoffrey D. Dunn
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Constructing the “Family” of Christ: Isidore of Seville on the Family Ties of Jesus

ISTORIYA
Although the veneration of the Holy Family and the Holy Kinship flourished in the 15th and 16th centuries, it would be a mistake to believe that Christians in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages were not interested in learning about Christ’s ...
Yulia Vershinina
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THE ASTRONOMY OF ISIDORE OF SEVILLE: TRANSFORMING AN AREA OF KNOWLEDGE FROM LATE ANTIQUITY INTO THE EARLY CHRISTIAN MIDDLE AGES

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.
Zong-Bei Huang
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Simile Est Regnum Coelorum Patrifamilias: Conceptualization of Familia and Patria Potestas in the Encyclopedic Works of Isidore of Seville

ISTORIYA
The social institutions of familia and patria potestas, as well as the social roles of pater familias and mater familias associated with them, are generally believed to be the key concepts for understanding the social organization of Roman society. Their
Yulia Vershinina
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Isidore of Seville On Man and Monsters

1964
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Silence on the Saints: Isidore of Seville on the Cult of Confessors

Journal of Late Antiquity
:The argument is increasingly being made that there was less consensus on the cult of saints around the late antique Mediterranean than has previously been assumed.
Kati Ihnat
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