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Around 1000, a new type of law‐book emerged in Catalonia and northern Italy that attests to new ways of handling legal material. Incorporating in full the Visigothic and Lombard law codes, respectively, these law‐books provided a base for studying and interpreting old law through comments, glosses etc., addressing new users such as lay judges.
Stefan Esders
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The building projects and the Histories of Gregory of Tours
This article offers a fresh perspective on the life and works of the sixth‐century bishop Gregory of Tours by analysing Gregory’s magnum opus, the Histories, alongside a frequently overlooked aspect of his episcopal career: his restoration of the cathedral church of Tours and St Martin’s basilica following their devastation by fire in the time of his ...
John Merrington
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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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Principles of formation of clerical identity in Isidore’s of Seville treatise On ecclesiastical offices [PDF]
This article studies the notion of the clergy of Isidore of Seville (ca. 560–636). The main source is the treatise “On Ecclesiastical Offi ces”, which was not studied from this point of view before.
Mikhail Birkin
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The Royal Prayerbook’s blood‐staunching charms and early Insular scribal communities
The Royal Prayerbook contains a variety of entries aimed at staunching a flow of blood, three of which are related by a shared poetic motif. An examination of the elements in these texts suggests that all three are a meditation on a scene from the gospels, the healing of the woman with the issue of blood.
Emily Kesling
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Abstract In light of recent reevaluations of the work of Hugo Grotius, this essay analyzes the respective roles of Francisco de Vitoria and Grotius in the construction of the “Grotian tradition” of international law and human rights. In contrast to conventional accounts which understand the two within a progression, this essay argues that Vitoria and ...
John E. Carter
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Lectio sanctarum scripturarum y exégesis en las obras de Isidoro de Sevilla
This article studies the lectio divina as it appears in the works of Isidore of Seville from the point of view of its conception and practice. On the one hand, the article presents the Isidore's recommandations concerning the task of the Christian man ...
María Adelaida Andrés Sanz
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La sangre en las Etimologías de Isidoro de Sevilla
Commentary on the main passages of the fourth and eleventh books of the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville on blood in relation to Medicine. These passages deal with issues such as the etymology of sanguis, sanitas and sanies, the differences between ...
Joaquín Pascual-Barea
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This article deals with a copy of a visigothic regnal list, which is found in two manuscripts of Pseudo-Isidore: Montecassino, ms. 1 and Paris, BnF, lat. 1557.
William Trouvé
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Le poète-juge et son enseignement, dans l’Irlande médiévale
The poet of pre-Christian Irish society has not disappeared with the development of Christianity. Since the 5th century, he has indeed managed to adapt to the changes of society and the law treaties of the 7th-8th centuries locate him in the ranks of ...
Christophe Archan
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