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Etymology in the Most Important Reference Encyclopedia of Late Antiquity: Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae

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2023
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Loporcaro, M., & Most, G. W. (2023). Etymology in the Most Important Reference Encyclopedia of Late Antiquity: Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae. In G. W. Most, D. Schäfer, & M. Söderblom Saarela (Eds.), Plurilingualism in Traditional Eurasian Scholarship. Thinking in Many Tongues (pp. 182–199). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004527256_017

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On the eve of the Middle Ages, slightly more than one century after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, in Spain under Visigothic rule Latin was still the language of culture and everyday spoken communication. In Seville, the bishop Isidore wrote what was to become the reference encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, the Etymologiae, whose very title indicates that speculation about etymology is key to the treatment of all disciplines, from mathematics to theology. This enormously influential treatise established a canon of disciplines an

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  • Most, Glenn W
  • Schäfer, Dagmar
  • Söderblom Saarela, Mårten

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Plurilingualism in Traditional Eurasian Scholarship. Thinking in Many Tongues

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Leiden

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182

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199

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English

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2024-01-30

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978-90-04-46466-7

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Loporcaro, M., & Most, G. W. (2023). Etymology in the Most Important Reference Encyclopedia of Late Antiquity: Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae. In G. W. Most, D. Schäfer, & M. Söderblom Saarela (Eds.), Plurilingualism in Traditional Eurasian Scholarship. Thinking in Many Tongues (pp. 182–199). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004527256_017

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