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Isidore of Seville and his reception in the early Middle Ages : transmitting and transforming knowledge /
Isidore of Seville (560-636) was a crucial figure in the preservation and sharing of classical and early Christian knowledge. His compilations of the works of earlier authorities formed an essential part of monastic education for centuries. Due to the vast amount[-]of information he gathered and its...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Late antique and early medieval Iberia ;
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Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Table of Contents; Preface / Paul Fouracre, University of Manchester; 1. Introduction / Andrew Fear and Jamie Wood; 2. A Family Affair: Leander, Isidore and the Legacy of Gregory the Great in Spain / Jamie Wood ; 3. Variations on a Theme: Isidore and Pliny on Human and Human-Instigated Anomaly / Mary Beagon; 4. Putting the Pieces Back Together: Isidore and De Natura Rerum / Andrew Fear; 5. The Politics of History-Writing: Problematizing the Historiographical Origins of Isidore of Seville in Early Medieval Hispania / Michael J. Kelly.
- 6. Isidorian Texts in Seventh-Century Ireland / Marina Smyth7. Isidore of Seville in Anglo-Saxon England: The Synonyma as a Source of Felix's Vita S. Guthlaci / Claudia Di Sciacca; 8. Hispania et Italia: Paul the Deacon, Isidore, and the Lombards / Christopher Heath; 9. Rylands MS Latin 12: A Carolingian Example of Isidore's Reception into the Patristic Canon / Melissa Markauskas; 10. Adoption, Adaptation, & Authority: The Use of Isidore in the Opus Caroli / Laura Carlson; Abbreviations; Index.