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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).
Bartosz Zalewski
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I, monster: queerness and the Liber Monstrorum in early medieval St Gall
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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Sapientiam sine eloquentia prodesse non est dubium: the rapport of wisdom and eloquence in the work of Isidore of Seville [PDF]
The works of Isidore of Seville reveal several levels of knowledge. The fi rst and the highest is wisdom (sapientia), which according to Isidore, is knowledge of divine things.
Elena Marey
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The Chronicles of Juan de Biclaro and Isidore of Seville news Visigothic foundation of two cities in Vasconia: Victoriacum and Ologicus. Traditionally identified with a point near Vitoria, the first, and the villa of Olite in Navarra, the second, this ...
Rafael Barroso Cabrera +2 more
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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
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BALTIC AMBER IN HISPANIA DURING LATE ANTIQUITY. CONTACTS, NETWORKS AND EXCHANGE
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 +3 more
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Philosophemes in the First Book of De Differentiis Verborum of Isidore of Seville [PDF]
Because of the paucity of purely philosophical texts produced during the early Middle Ages, the history of philosophy is forced to look for philosophy in texts actually belonging to other branches of thought.
Sergey Vorontsov
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In the Roman-Germanic kingdoms from the sixth century onwards, Bishops’s activities were mainly concentrated on the preservation and expansion of the Christian faith and the reorganization of ecclesiastical institutions. Among several initiatives, a huge
Leila Rodrigues da Silva
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The Carolingian cocio: on the vocabulary of the early medieval petty merchant
The word cocio (i.e. petty merchant or broker in classical Latin) was a rare term that after a long absence in written Latin reappeared in several Carolingian texts. Scholars have posited a medieval semantic shift from ‘merchant’ to ‘vagabond’. But this article argues that this consensus is erroneous.
Shane Bobrycki
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Immaturity of the neuromuscular junction in spinal muscular atrophy mouse models
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is caused by deficiency of the survival motor neuron (SMN) protein and is classically defined by degeneration of lower motor neurons. Extensive evidence from mouse models and human tissue demonstrates that dysfunction at the
Lucía Tabares +5 more
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