A Companion to Isidore of Seville

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-34784-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 87, 676 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1089 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition

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.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Fear, Andrew

Wood, Jamie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Christliches Leben & Praxis

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).