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Matris animula « serpolet » : médecine et folklore autour d’un phytonyme

Pallas, 2017
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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3. The Bishop and the Word: Isidore of Seville and the Production of Meaning

Framing Power in Visigothic Society, 2020
This chapter examines modes of exercising power in the early Middle Ages, focusing on the figure of the bishop in the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo. It explores several aspects of the study and interpretation of the Bible during that period, with the aim ...
D. Castro
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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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Aristocratic identification in Felix’s Life of Guthlac

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 3, Page 435-457, August 2026.
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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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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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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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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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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Isidore of Seville, his Mode of Writing and the Metaphor of Taste

Isidorianum
The writings in which an author expresses his thought may actually be the product of certain cultural practices of his age. The article considers how such practices are manifested in the writings of Isidore of Seville, particularly with respect to the ...
S. Vorontsov
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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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