Isidore of Seville and His Reception in the Early Middle Ages - Transmitting and Transforming Knowledge

Informationen zum Autor Jamie Wood is Professor of History and Education at the University of Lincoln. He has published extensively on Isidore of Seville's historiography, bishops in Visigothic Hispania, and the social functions of violence. His current project explores political, economic, and religious connections between the Iberian Peninsula and the Byzantine world in late antiquity. Andrew Fear is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Manchester and author of Rome and Baetica (Oxford, 1996), The Lives of the Visigothic Fathers (Liverpool, 1997) and Orosius: Seven Books of History against the Pagans (Liverpool, 2010). Klappentext Isidore of Seville (560-636) was a crucial figure in the preservation and sharing of classical and early Christian knowledge. His compilations of the works of earlier authorities formed an essential part of monastic education for centuries. Due to the vast amountof information he gathered and its wide dissemination in the Middle Ages, Pope John Paul II even named Isidore the patron saint of the Internet in 1997. This volume represents a cross section of the various approaches scholars have taken toward Isidore's writings. The essays explore his sources, how he selected and arranged them for posterity, and how his legacy was reflected in later generations' work across the early medieval West. Rich in archival detail, this collection provides a wealth of interdisciplinary expertise on one of history's greatest intellectuals.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew (EDT)/ Wood Fear, Jamie Wood
• Assisted by: Andrew Fear (Editor), Andy Fear (Editor), Jamie Wood (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.05.2015
• EAN: 9789089648280
• ISBN: 978-90-8964-828-0
• No. of pages: 178
• Series: Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia; Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia; Late Antique and Early Medieva; Amsterdam University Press - L
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Spanien, Geschichte der Religion, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Gruppen, 500 bis 1000 nach Christus