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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.

Isidore of Seville [ˈɪzɪdɔː]
n
(Biographies / Isidore of Seville, Saint (?560-636) M, Spanish, RELIGION: clergyman, MISC: scholar, RELIGION: saint) Saint, Latin name Isidorus Hispalensis. ?560-636 ad, Spanish archbishop and scholar, noted for his Etymologies, an encyclopedia. Feast day: April 4


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Isidore of Seville: De Ecclesiasticis Officiis Isidore of Seville Newman Press 997 MacArthur Boulevard, Mahwah, NJ 07430 9780809105816, $24.
As far as sources are concerned, Pontano relied heavily on genuinely ancient commentators such as Servius; despite his polemics against barbarous medieval grammarians, he nevertheless made extensive use of medieval authorities such as Isidore of Seville, Papias, Hugutio, and Giovanni Balbi too.
In his first two chapters, Clopper reexamines an antitheatrical tradition that goes back to Augustine and early Church canons and is, in large part, transmitted to the Middle Ages via Isidore of Seville.
 
 
 
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