An encyclopedist of the dark ages: Isidore of Seville

Name: An encyclopedist of the dark ages: Isidore of Seville
Author: Brehaut, Ernest

Brehaut, Ernest

Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636; Thesis (Ph. D.)

3. Life                                                           20
       a. Family                                                    20
       b. Leander                                                   20
       c. Early years and education                                 21
       d. Facts of his life                                         22

  4. Impression made by Isidore on his contemporaries               23
       Braulio’s account                                            23

  5. Works                                                          24
      a. Braulio’s list                                             24
      b. Works especially important as giving Isidore’s
           intellectual outlook                                     25
           (1) _Differentiae_                                       26
                 Stress on words                                    26
           (2) _De Natura Rerum_                                    27
                 View of the physical universe                      27
                 General organization of subject-matter             28
           (3) _Liber Numerorum_                                    29
                 Mysticism of number                                29
           (4) _Allegoriae_                                         29
           (5) _Sententiae_                                         29
           (6) _De Ordine Creaturarum_                              30
      c. His main work—the _Etymologies_                            30
           (1) Description                                          30
           (2) Contents                                             31
           (3) Antiquarian character                                32
           (4) Leading principle of treatment—word derivation       33
           (5) Inconsistency of thought                             34
           (6) Circumstances of production                          34


  CHAPTER II
  ISIDORE’S RELATION TO PREVIOUS CULTURE

  1. Dependance on the past                                         35

  2. Ignorance of Greek                                             35

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An encyclopedist of the dark ages: Isidore of Seville

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