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The timelessness of Isidore of Seville’s thought for the philosophy of law

Acta Iuris Stetinensis
The intellectual legacy of Isidore of Seville is impressive. The Sevillian left behind hundreds of pages of texts that are a subject of reflection of theologians, historians, philosophers and literary scholars.
Dawid Kostecki
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 275-298, May 2026.
This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
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Isidore of Seville and the ius et lex formula – inspirations for a philosopher of law today

Acta Iuris Stetinensis
Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae has always been a subject of interest to lawyers. This concerns in particular its chapter five: Laws and times. This article, however, points out that a different fragment of Etymologiae carries certain importance to ...
Jerzy Zajadło
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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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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 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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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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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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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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