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Discussion of the De Generatione Sonorum, a treatise on sound and phonetics by Robert Grosseteste [PDF]

, 2012
Here I am proposing a translation and discussion of the De Generatione Sonorum, one of the short scientific treatises written by Robert Grosseteste. The subject is the sound and the phonetics.
Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
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Preliminary comments on the genesis of the concept of natural law in the approach taken by St. Isidore of Seville

Acta Iuris Stetinensis
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).
Bart B. Zalewski
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Chronotopes of exile and loss in Philip O'Sullivan Beare's Zoilomastix (c. 1626)☆

Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 60-80, February 2025.
Abstract This essay explores the relationship between an early modern exile and his native environment, as depicted in Philip O'Sullivan Beare's unfinished natural history Zoilomastix. Writing by turns in Latin, Spanish and Gaelic from the safety of the Habsburg court, O'Sullivan Beare marshalled Ciceronian rhetoric and Plinian wonder to argue for the ...
Kevin Gerard Tracey
wiley   +1 more source

Coins and Flowers: Some Images of the Textual Authority in the Works of Isidore of Seville

Dialog so vremenem, 2021
В статье обсуждается значение авторитета цитируемого текста в свете дихотомии авторитет текста / авторитет личности в культуре последних веков Поздней Античности на Латинском Западе на материале наследия Исидора Севильского. На основании анализа метафор,
С. А. Воронцов
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Sir Walter Ralegh and the Art of War by Sea: Military Humanism and the Uses of the Early Modern Soldier‐Scholar

History, Volume 109, Issue 388, Page 461-487, December 2024.
Abstract This article establishes the intellectual origins and underpinnings of the early modern soldier‐scholar in order to better understand the military humanist tradition within which Sir Walter Ralegh's writings on naval warfare and logistics were conceived and composed. By locating Ralegh within this tradition, the article provides a new critical
MATTHEW WOODCOCK
wiley   +1 more source

Christian criticism of pagan religious and magical practices in Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville – an outline

Acta Iuris Stetinensis
Etymologiae was Isidore of Seville’s most well-known work. This volume included a number of issues that reflected ancient knowledge adjusted to the changing realities of then contemporary world. The terms defined there were grouped in twenty books, which
I. Stodulska
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I, monster: queerness and the Liber Monstrorum in early medieval St Gall

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 543-564, November 2024.
This article analyses a ninth‐century copy of the Liber monstrorum from St Gall in which the first monster, a ‘human of both sexes’, speaks in the first person. The scribe also put the Liber monstrorum into dialogue with Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae, in which Isidore argued that monsters were not ‘contrary to nature’.
Michael Eber
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What is adoration? Contesting meaning in the margins of the Opus Caroli regis contra synodum (c.790–4)

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 387-411, August 2024.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Between God and Man: The Great Adventure in Common (Isidore of Seville’s De ortu et obitu Patrum)

Isidorianum
In his De ortu et obitu Patrum, Isidore of Seville elaborates a collection of stories that engage the reader in living the experiences of the characters presented and encourage him to identify with them and imitate them.
Tatiana Krynicka
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BALTIC AMBER IN HISPANIA DURING LATE ANTIQUITY. CONTACTS, NETWORKS AND EXCHANGE

Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 43, Issue 2, Page 195-216, May 2024.
Summary Amber is a material of great social value that has been identified at various archaeological sites on the Iberian peninsula dating to Late Antiquity. The objects, mostly necklace beads, have been discussed to date with limited results in relation to a small number of studies.
Elena Vallejo‐Casas, Gisela Ripoll, Margarita Sánchez Romero, Mercedes Murillo‐Barroso   +3 more
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