What does Babylon have to do with Jerusalem, or A note on the problem of boundaries between the sacred and the secular in the Latin West (late 6th — early 7th centuries) [PDF]
The article deals with the problem of boundaries and nature of the secular in the end of late Antiquity in the Latin West (focusing on the works of Isidore of Seville).
Sergey Vorontsov
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Il trattato di musica nell’enciclopedia De proprietatibus rerum di Bartholomaeus Anglicus
The De proprietatibus rerum by Bartholomaeus Anglicus is an encyclopaedic compilation written in Latin between 1230 and 1240. Seven translations were made in the 14th-15th centuries, in French, in Occitan, in English, in Dutch, in Spanish and in ...
Nagy, Ella Bernadette
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Plagues and their Function in Sources of Late Antique-Visigothic Hispania and Gregory of Tours
This study identifies where plagues are mentioned in the works of major chroniclers of Late Antique/Visigothic Hispania; they are Hydatius, John of Biclar, Isidore of Seville, the anonymous Vitas Sanctorum Patrum Emeretensium, and select Visigothic ...
Alberto Ferreiro
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The Time of Preparation for the Pasch in the Light of Medieval Allegory
In the medieval liturgy, especially in the celebration of the Mass, allegorical interpretation of the texts and gestures played a very meaningful role.
Waldemar Pałęcki
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Isidore of Seville and the construction of a common legal culture in early medieval Europe
This paper explores Isidore of Seville’s definitions of legal terms and Roman law concepts during the early Middle Ages. While Isidore was not a lawyer, he played a crucial role on the development of both legal theory and more technical aspects of the ...
Luca Loschiavo
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Isidore of Seville and his “codification” of law (etym. 5.1-27)
In the first part of chapter V of Etymologiae, Isidore of Seville collects and discusses the most important issues pertaining to law and justice.
Maciej Jońca
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Matris animula « serpolet » : médecine et folklore autour d’un phytonyme
Creeping thyme or mother of thyme is usually called serpillum in Latin but Isidore of Seville gives it another name, matris animula ‘mother’s little soul’, which he explains with its gynaecological virtues. The word is not attested anywhere else in Latin
Alain Christol
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The Teaching of Isidore of Seville on Predestination [PDF]
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.
Sergey Vorontsov
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[The Greeks] 'called it KOSMOS, which means ornament'
The title of this article is a statement quoted from a translation of The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville, 615–630 ad. The article proposes that the content of ornament is primordially derived from the eternal motions found in the macrocosm, a ...
Kent Bloomer
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Aristocratic identification in Felix’s Life of Guthlac
Recent scholarship often sees high‐born monastics and clerics in early Christian England as part of the aristocratic class. Modern identity theories, however, suggest that social identity could be dynamic, situational, processual and discursive. In light of this concept, the present article reads Felix’s Life of Guthlac as a text that constructs an ...
Lek Hang Chan
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