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Isidore of Seville

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Is·i·dore of Seville  (z-dôr, -dr), Saint 560?-636.
Spanish scholar and ecclesiastic. He wrote the encyclopedia Etymologiae, an important reference work throughout the Middle Ages.


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Isidore of Seville has not been named the patron saint of then Internet and computing, as has been the online buzz since the beginning of the year.
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If encyclopedism from Isidore of Seville to Vincent of Beauvais encourages breadth, at its worst a massive assemblage and idle display of merely antiquarian interest, Dante pushes forward to discover depth, a knowledge that is not static but rather a process of growth in time.
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