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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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Preliminary comments on the genesis of the concept of natural law in the approach taken by St. Isidore of Seville

Acta Iuris Stetinensis
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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Sapientiam sine eloquentia prodesse non est dubium: the rapport of wisdom and eloquence in the work of Isidore of Seville [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2013
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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¿Váscones o Wascónes? Acerca del Ducado de Cantabria y la fundación de ciudades en el norte peninsular en época visigoda

E-Spania, 2013
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, Jesús Carrobles Santos, Jorge Morín de Pablos   +2 more
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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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I, monster: queerness and the Liber Monstrorum in early medieval St Gall

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 543-564, November 2024.
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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Philosophemes in the First Book of De Differentiis Verborum of Isidore of Seville [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2013
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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