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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.
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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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Price: $412.00
Pages: 676
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition
Publication Date:
21 November 2019
ISBN: 9789004347847
Format: Hardcover
“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.
“Both the fact that over 1,000 of Isidore's manuscripts survive to this day and the impeccable scholarship of this companion's essays attest to Isidore's influence on the medieval Christian tradition. Each essay is further supplemented by an excellent accompanying bibliography. Although interested readers should approach this volume with a good deal of familiarity with early medieval history, it is an important contribution to the period sometimes (unjustly) labeled the ‘Dark Ages.’”
P. A. Streveler, emeritus, West Chester University of Pennsylvania. In: Choice Reviews, Vol. 57 No. 10 (June 2020).
Molly Lester, United States Naval Academy. In: Speculum, Vol. 96, No. 2 (April 2021), pp. 494–496.
“Both the fact that over 1,000 of Isidore's manuscripts survive to this day and the impeccable scholarship of this companion's essays attest to Isidore's influence on the medieval Christian tradition. Each essay is further supplemented by an excellent accompanying bibliography. Although interested readers should approach this volume with a good deal of familiarity with early medieval history, it is an important contribution to the period sometimes (unjustly) labeled the ‘Dark Ages.’”
P. A. Streveler, emeritus, West Chester University of Pennsylvania. In: Choice Reviews, Vol. 57 No. 10 (June 2020).
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).
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).