A Companion to Isidore of Seville

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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. Acknowledgements ix List of Figures x Abbreviations xi Part 1. Isidore’s Contexts 1. Introduction / Andrew Fear and Jamie Wood 3 2. Isidore of Seville: Historical Contexts / Santiago Castellanos 21 3. God’s Librarian: Isidore of Seville and His Literary Agenda / Graham Barrett 42 4. Leander of Seville and His Influence on Isidore of Seville / Purificación Ubric Rabaneda 101 Part 2. Themes in Isidore’s Works 5. Isidore of Seville as a Theologian / Thomas O’Loughlin 135 6. Isidore of Seville as an Historian / Jamie Wood 153 7. Isidore of Seville and Science / Faith Wallis 182 8. Isidore of Seville as a Grammarian / José Carracedo Fraga 222 9. Isidore of Seville and the 'Etymologies' / Jacques Elfassi 245 10. Isidore of Seville’s Theories and Practices of Pastoral Care and Church Organization / Céline Martin 279 11. Living a Christian Life: Isidore of Seville on Monasticism, Teaching, and Learning / Pedro Castillo Maldonado 301 12. Isidore of Seville on Law and Kingship / Andrew Fear 332 13. Confronting the Other: Isidore of Seville on Pagans, Romans, Barbarians, Heretics, and Jews / Raúl González Salinero 359 Part 3. Transmission and Reception of Isidore’s Work and Thought 14. Isidore of Seville’s Early Influence and Dissemination (636–711) / Mark Lewis Tizzoni 397 15. Isidore amongst the Islands: The Reception and Use of Isidore of Seville in Britain and Ireland in the Early Middle Ages / Martin J. Ryan 424 16. Isidore of Seville and the Formation of Medieval Computus / Immo Warntjes 457 17. Isidore in the Carolingian and Ottonian Worlds: Encyclopaedism and Etymology, c. 800–1050 / Sinéad O’Sullivan 524 18. Isidore of Seville in Scholastic Europe / Winston Black 569 19. Isidore of Seville in the Renaissance (1500–1700): The Role of Golden Age Spain / Jeremy Lawrance 604 20. Archiving Idolatry: Isidore of Seville and the Recording of Native Superstition in the New World / Amy Fuller 644 Index 669