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Darrera modificació: 2009-02-08
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat, Cançoners, Eiximenis, Altres
Henderson, John, The Medieval World of Isidore of Seville: Truth from Words, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007, 244 pp.
- Resum
- In his Etymologiae, St Isidore of Seville put together a systematic survey of the world in the form of a vast thesaurus of Latin vocabulary, which supplies a more or less accepted or fanciful etymology for each term. It became one of the most influential books of European culture through the whole medieval period. This Latin 'Roget' is traditionally used as a reference work, accessed through an elaborate index system. In this book Professor Henderson, the most challenging critic writing on Latin literature and Roman culture today, presents the first full reading of all twenty books of the Etymologiae, showing how the material is sequenced so that its reader is treated to a thorough-going education in the world as it was apprehended in Jewish, Graeco-Roman and Christian culture. All Latin, including etymologies, is translated. The first book to offer a reading of the whole of the Etymologiae, the Latin power book that delivered the classical-Christian world to the Middle Ages. Translates all Latin, including the etymologies, for which a full index is provided. Written by one of the leading critics of Latin literature and Roman culture.
Contents:
Preface: when it’s ajar
Part I. Preliminaries
1.1. Prefatory correspondence and dedication
1.2. Index and referencing system
1.3. Conclusion
Part II. Reading the Etymologiae
2. Primary education
2.1. Proem: seven at one blow
2.1.1. Grammar: the alphabet
2.1.2. Grammar proper
2.2. Rhetoric
2.3. Dialectic or rationalist philosophy
3. Secondary education
3.1. Poly-mathematics: quadrophenia
3.2. Arithmetic
3.3. Geometry
3.4. Music
3.5. Astronomy domine
3.6~4. Medicine
5. Law and history
6. Scripture and Christian duties
7. God, the angels, the saints
8. Church, schism, paganism
9. Languages, populations, societies
10. Epithets: a thesaurus
11. Mankind and monsters
12. Living creatures
13. World survey (water)
14. Earth survey (land)
15. Building, town and country
16. Rocks and metals
17. Agriculture and botany
18. War and recreation
19. Ships, construction and decoration, clothing
20. Food and drink, packaging and transport, tools and harness
Conclusion: after words
Appendix 1. W. M. Lindsay and the scholarship on Isidore
Appendix 2. Isidore’s chronographic table (Etymologiae 5.39)
- Matèries
- Enciclopedisme
- Notes
- Fitxa de l'editor: http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?is ...
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