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[The Greeks] 'called it KOSMOS, which means ornament'

Approaching Religion, 2016
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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Mills and society in early medieval northern Italy

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 3-33, February 2026.
Drawing on the extensive documentary record of northern Italy, available archaeological evidence, and comparative case studies from early medieval Europe, this study demonstrates that mill‐based landscapes in the Po and Friuli‐Venetian plains were shaped by society as a whole.
Marco Panato
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Amateur justice in Carolingian Bavaria

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 497-521, November 2025.
This paper examines judges and judgement in Bavarian dispute charters from the first decades of the ninth century. It argues that justice in Carolingian Bavaria was an amateur affair, in which of primary importance was the ability to create a stable consensus around an outcome. Accordingly, distinctions between judges and other participants in judicial
Amos Bronner
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The rulership of Pippin I of Aquitaine

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 545-571, November 2025.
This article uses the reign of Pippin I of Aquitaine (d. 838) as a case study for the historiographical concept of ‘sub‐rulership’ in Carolingian Francia. It unpicks how Pippin’s status varied over time, arguing that Pippin’s rulership represents well the tension between kingship as an office and as a dynastic status.
Eddie Meehan
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Parallel Glosses, Shared Glosses, and Gloss Clustering: Can Network-Based Approach Help Us to Understand Organic Corpora of Glosses?

Journal of Historical Network Research, 2023
Glossing was an important element of medieval Western manuscript culture. Yet, glosses are notoriously difficult to analyze because of their philological triviality, fluid nature, heterogeneity of origin, complex transmission histories, and anonymity ...
Evina Stein
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The Catalog of illustrious Men of Isidore of Seville (CPL 1206): content and dating

Studia Historica: Historia Antigua, 2014
This paper presents the authors and writings cited by Isidore of Seville in his De uiris illustribus and study the use of them made by the bishop of Seville in the rest of his works.
José Carlos MARTÍN
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Letters, gifts and messengers. The epistolary strategies of St Radegund

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 309-340, August 2025.
This article studies the ways the sixth‐century queen and monastic founder Radegund (c.520–87) managed the non‐textual elements of communication by letter. While Radegund’s role as a writer and commissioner of letters has been well studied, her efforts as an orchestrator of letter deliveries, gift exchanges and other associated acts of public ...
Robert Flierman, Hope Williard
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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
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Encyclopaedia of Isidore of Seville as polyphony (based on Etymologiae, I–III)

Acta Iuris Stetinensis
The life of Isidore hid under the shadow of his writing. Generations of Europeans learned about the world from its most famous work – Etymologiae. The author of this impressive compilation was a bishop dedicated to God’s people, advisor to Visigoth ...
Tatiana Krynicka
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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
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