A companion to Isidore of Seville / / edited by Andrew Fear, Jamie Wood.

A Companion to Isidore of Seville presents nineteen chapters from leading international scholars on Isidore of Seville (d. 636), the most prominent bishop of the Visigothic kingdom in Hispania in the seventh century and one of the most prolific authors of early medieval western Europe. Introductory...

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Superior document:Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; Volume 87
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; Volume 87.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: Isidore's contexts. Introduction / Andrew Fear and Jamie Wood
  • Isidore of Seville : historical contexts / Santiago Castellanos
  • God's librarian : Isidore of Seville and his literary agenda / Graham Barrett
  • Leander of Seville and his influence on Isidore of Seville / Purificación Ubric Rabaneda
  • Part 2: Themes in Isidore's works. Isidore of Seville as a theologian / Thomas O'Loughlin
  • Isidore of Seville as an historian / Jamie Wood
  • Isidore of Seville and science / Faith Wallis
  • Isidore of Seville as a grammarian / José Carracedo Fraga
  • Isidore of Seville and the Etymologies / Jacques Elfassi
  • Isidore of Seville's theories and practices of pastoral care and church organization / Céline Martin
  • Living a Christian life : Isidore of Seville on monasticism, teaching, and learning / Pedro Castillo Maldonado
  • Isidore of Seville on law and kingship / Andrew Fear
  • Confronting the other : Isidore of Seville on pagans, Romans, barbarians, heretics, and Jews / Raúl González Salinero
  • Part 3: Transmission and reception of Isidore's work and thought. Isidore of Seville's early influence and dissemination (636-711) / Mark Lewis Tizzoni
  • Isidore amongst the islands : the reception and use of Isidore of Seville in Britain and Ireland in the Early Middle Ages / Martin J. Ryan
  • Isidore of Seville and the formation of medieval computus / Immo Warntjes
  • Isidore in the Carolingian and Ottonian worlds : encyclopaedism and etymology, c. 800-1050 / Sinéad O'Sullivan
  • Isidore of Seville in scholastic Europe / Winston Black
  • Isidore of Seville in the Renaissance (1500-1700) : The role of Golden Age Spain / Jeremy Lawrance
  • Archiving idolatry : Isidore of Seville and the recording of native superstition in the New World / Amy Fuller.