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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 studies establish the political, religious and familial contexts in which Isidore operated, his key works are then analysed in detail, as are some of the main themes that run throughout his corpus. Isidore's influence extended across the entire Middle Ages and into the early modern period in fields such as church governance and pastoral care, theology, grammar, science, history-writing, and linguistics – all topics that are explored in the volume. Contributors: Graham Barrett, Winston Black, José Carracedo Fraga, Santiago Castellanos, Pedro Castillo Maldonado, Jacques Elfassi, Andrew Fear, Amy Fuller, Raúl González Salinero, Jeremy Lawrance, Céline Martin, Thomas O'Loughlin, Martin J. Ryan, Sinéad O'Sullivan, Mark Lewis Tizzoni, Purificación Ubric Rabaneda, Faith Wallis, Immo Warntjes, and Jamie Wood. See inside the book.

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Author:   Andrew Fear ,  Jamie Wood
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   87
Weight:   1.167kg
ISBN:  

9789004347847

ISBN 10:   9004347844
Pages:   676
Publication Date:   21 November 2019
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Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

 Acknowledgements  List of Figures  Abbreviations Part 1: Isidore’s Contexts  1Introduction   Andrew Fear and Jamie Wood  2Isidore of Seville: Historical Contexts   Santiago Castellanos  3God’s Librarian: Isidore of Seville and His Literary Agenda   Graham Barrett  4Leander of Seville and his influence on Isidore of Seville   Purificación Ubric Rabaneda Part 2: Themes in Isidore’s Works  5Isidore of Seville as a Theologian   Thomas O’Loughlin  6Isidore of Seville as an Historian   Jamie Wood  7Isidore of Seville and Science   Faith Wallis  8Isidore of Seville as a Grammarian   José Carracedo Fraga  9Isidore of Seville and the Etymologies   Jacques Elfassi  10Isidore of Seville’s Theories and Practices of Pastoral Care and Church Organization   Céline Martin  11Living a Christian Life: Isidore of Seville on Monasticism, Teaching, and Learning   Pedro Castillo Maldonado  12Isidore of Seville on Law and Kingship   Andrew Fear  13Confronting 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  14Isidore of Seville’s Early Influence and Dissemination (636–711)   Mark Lewis Tizzoni  15Isidore amongst the Islands: The Reception and Use of Isidore of Seville in Britain and Ireland in the Early Middle Ages   Martin J. Ryan  16Isidore of Seville and the Formation of Medieval Computus   Immo Warntjes  17Isidore in the Carolingian and Ottonian Worlds: Encyclopaedism and Etymology, c. 800–1050   Sinéad O’Sullivan  18Isidore of Seville in Scholastic Europe   Winston Black  19Isidore of Seville in the Renaissance (1500–1700): The Role of Golden Age Spain   Jeremy Lawrance  20Archiving Idolatry: Isidore of Seville and the Recording of Native Superstition in the New World   Amy Fuller  Index

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The Companion offers an excellent introduction to Isidore and his works that is accessible, informative, and stimulating for newcomers and experts alike [...] Like Isidore himself, the Companion's essays gloss and interpret rather than simply transmit, guiding readers through existing scholarship while advancing new observations and indicating promising avenues of research. Molly Lester, United States Naval Academy. In: Speculum, Vol. 96, No. 2 (April 2021), pp. 494-496.

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Dr Jamie Wood, Ph.D. (Manchester), is Associate Professor in History at the University of Lincoln (UK). He has published widely on late antique and early medieval Iberia, including The Politics of Identity in Visigothic Spain (Brill, 2012). Dr Andrew Fear, D.Phil., is a Lecturer in Ancient History at University of Manchester (UK). He has published a translation of Orosius's Seven Books of History against the Pagans (Translated Texts for Historians, University of Liverpool Press) and was joint editor, with Jamie Wood, of Isidore of Seville and his Reception in the Early Middle Ages (Amsterdam University Press, 2016).

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