It forms a bridge between a condensed epitome of classical learning at the close of Late Antiquity and the inheritance received, in large part through Isidore's work, by the early Middle Ages.

An illustration from Isidore's De Natura Rerum shows the five zones of the earth as adjacent circles.

Isidore's T and O map, which was seen as representing a small part of a spherical Earth, was essentially unchanged from its predecessors of 1, 200 years previously, continued to be used through the Middle Ages by authors, e. g. the 9th century bishop Rabanus Maurus who compared the habitable part of the northern hemisphere ( Aristotle's northern temperate clime ) with a wheel.

Scholars in almost every European nation continued to repeat and improve upon Saint Isidore's assertion of descent from Noah through Japheth into the nineteenth century.

The Early Christian euhemerist interpretation of mythologized human beings received a long-lasting boost from Isidore's Etymologiae.

His description of Avalon here, which is heavily indebted to the early medieval Spanish scholar Isidore of Seville ( being mostly derived from the section on famous islands in Isidore's famous work Etymologiae, XIV. 6. 8 " Fortunatae Insulae "), shows the magical nature of the island:

" An editor's enthusiasm is soon chilled by the discovery that Isidore's book is really a mosaic of pieces borrowed from previous writers, sacred and profane, often their ' ipsa verba ' without alteration ," W. M. Lindsay noted in 1911, having recently edited Isidore for the Clarendon Press, with the further observation, however, that a portion of the texts quoted have otherwise been lost: the Prata of Suetonius can only be reconstructed from Isidore's excerpts.

In the second book, dealing with dialectic and rhetoric, Isidore is heavily indebted to translations from the Greek by Boethius, and in treating logic, Cassiodorus, who provided the gist of Isidore's treatment of arithmetic in Book III.

Among the others, he authorized the transfer of Saint Isidore's relics from Seville to the Basilica of San Isidoro of León.

He was guardian of St. Isidore's College, the house of the Irish Franciscans, in Rome from 1787 until 1790, when he returned to Ireland as guardian of Ennis.

Isidore's Latin style in the Etymologiae and elsewhere, though simple and lucid but not classical style, revealing increasing local Visigothic traditions.

At the same time, Isidore's works also gave the views of sphericity, for example, in chapter 28 of De Natura Rerum, Isidore claims that the sun orbits the earth and illuminates the other side when it is night on this side.

She later met the Pope and embarked on other official duties, including a trip to St. Isidore's College, a talk at the Pontifical Irish College and a Mass said especially for the Irish Embassy at Villa Spada chapel.

" Proclus for his part used to " marvel at Isidore's appearance, as it was possessed by the divine and full of the philosophical life within.

In preparation for the hurricane, the Red Cross mobilized its members across Texas, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida days before Isidore's expected landfall.

" Heather understands Isidore's chronicle states that Athangild summoned the Byzantines, while Jordanes implies in his Getica that Agila had asked them for help.

In medieval geographies, Isidore's Fortunate Islands were identified with the Canaries.

The book was not only one of the most popular compendia in medieval libraries but was printed in at least ten editions between 1470 and 1530, showing Isidore's continued popularity in the Renaissance, rivalling Vincent of Beauvais.

Copy ( 1472 ) of Isidore of Seville | St. Isidore's TO map of the world.

It was printed in at least 10 editions between 1470 and 1530, showing Isidore's continued popularity in the Renaissance.

Isidore's De fide catholica contra Iudaeos furthers Augustine of Hippo's ideas on the Jewish presence in Christian society.

In addition to money, Abbad II al-Mu ' tadid, the Abbadid rule of Seville ( 1042 – 1069 ), agreed to turn over St. Isidore's remains to Fernando I.

A Catholic poet described al-Mutatid placing a brocaded cover over Isidore's sarcophagus, and remarked, " Now you are leaving here, revered Isidore.

" Fernando had Isidore's remains reinterred in the then recently constructed Basilica of San Isidoro in Leon.

Isidore's Synonyms and Differences.

Isidore's low I. Q.

Isidore's definition is followed immediately by an explanation of the cardines ( plural of cardo ), the north-south pivots of the axis on which the sphere of the world rotates.

St. Isidore's Roman Catholic Church, founded by Polish immigrants in 1899, is located in the township.

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Lives of saints ( St Andrew, St Thomas the Apostle, St John the Evangelist ) form a part of a poem, strictly didactic, which stands out by reason of its great extent ( nearly thirty-five thousand verses ) and the somewhat original conception of its scheme-the Breviars damor, a vast encyclopedia, on a theological basis, composed by the Minorite friar Matfre Ermengaut of Bezers between 1288 and 1300 or thereabout.

A modern scholar rarely would find an encyclopedia with the size and vast content of the Cursor Mundi.

Science in the Roman Empire period was concerned with systematizing knowledge gained in the preceding Hellenistic period and the knowledge from the vast areas the Romans had conquered.

The Chaldeans, like the rest of Mesopotamia and much of the ancient Near East and Asia Minor, from the 10th to late 7th centuries BC, came to be dominated by the vast Assyrian Empire, based in northern Mesopotamia.

The vast majority of Modern Greek vocabulary is directly inherited from ancient Greek, although in some cases words have changed meanings.

Playfair describes Hutton as having noticed that “ a vast proportion of the present rocks are composed of materials afforded by the destruction of bodies, animal, vegetable and mineral, of more ancient formation ”.

Labrador is the easternmost part of the Canadian Shield, a vast area of ancient metamorphic rock comprising much of northeastern North America.

Detailed Thermal Emission Imaging System | THEMIS daytime infrared image mosaic of Olympus Mons. Olympus Mons lies at the edge of the Tharsis bulge, a vast volcanic plateau that is very ancient.

The birth of these kingdoms / tribes essentially altered the political structure of the ancient world of the Vahoaka Ntaolo, but the vast majority of other categories remained intact in these new realms: the common language, customs, traditions, the sacred, the economy, the art of the olds remained preserved in the vast majority of forms with variations by region.

Lovecraft's celebrated short story, The Call of Cthulhu ( 1928 ), the titular entity emerges from the vast and ancient alien city of R ' lyeh, which is described in terms of " non-Euclidean geometry " and contains angles which are " all wrong " ( appearing acute but behaving as if obtuse, for example ) and planes which could be horizontal or slanted depending on how the observer looks at them.

There are many ancient castles and monasteries in the province ; this coupled with the vast green countryside and three cities makes it a feature of the tourism industry.

It is true that centuries of law-abiding and litigious habitude had accumulated, in the temple archives of each city, vast stores of precedent in ancient deeds and records of judicial decisions and that intercourse had assimilated city custom.

Karellen finally reveals the Overlords ' purpose: They serve the Overmind, a vast cosmic intelligence, born of amalgamated ancient civilizations, and freed from matter's limits.

Glaaki is an ancient and wise creature with vast knowledge of the other beings that are active in Britain's Severn River Valley, such as Y ' golonac, the Denizens of S ' glhuo, Shub-Niggurath, Eihort, and Byatis.

Haggard knew Africa well, having travelled deep within the continent as a 19-year-old during the Anglo-Zulu War and the First Boer War, where he had been impressed by South Africa's vast mineral wealth and by the ruins of ancient lost cities being uncovered, such as Great Zimbabwe.

Beneath a maze of busy narrow streets of a middle and lower-class district, lie vast hidden remains of ancient Heliopolis about fifteen to twenty metres down.

It holds a vast amount of art of French and other artists, e. g. the Mona Lisa, by Leonardo da Vinci, and classical Greek Venus de Milo and ancient works of culture and art from Egypt and the Middle East.

Saqqara (, ), also spelled Sakkara or Saccara in English (), is a vast, ancient burial ground in Egypt, serving as the necropolis for the Ancient Egyptian capital, Memphis.

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The complex is a vast open-air museum and the largest ancient religious site in the world.

The series for the first two seasons was shot on a modular indoor soundstage at General Service Studios in Hollywood, and made economical use of a small number of sets and scenic props which were rearranged frequently to suggest the ostensibly vast jungles, ancient cities and cave systems.

However, recent investigations have revealed that the ancient P ’ urhépecha had a vast empire, second in territory only to the Aztecs and a complex culture that was in many ways unlike any other in Mesoamerica.

Though the present archaeological site covered by mudbrick ruins is vast, the site of Samarra was only lightly occupied in ancient times, apart from the Chalcolithic Samarran Culture ( ca 5500 – 4800 BC ) identified at the rich site of Tell Sawwan, where evidence of irrigation — including flax — establishes the presence of a prosperous settled culture with a highly organized social structure.

Oxenstierna, an ancient Swedish noble family, the origin of which can be traced up to the middle of the 14th century, which had vast estates in Södermanland and Uppland, and began to adopt its armorial designation of Oxenstierna (" Ox-forehead "; stierna, in modern spelling " stjärna ", has the double meaning of " star ") as a personal name towards the end of the 16th century.

His Discours sur l ' état des lettres au XIIIe siècle, in the sixteenth volume of the Histoire littéraire de France, is a remarkable contribution to that vast collection, especially as coming from an author so profoundly learned in the ancient classics.

The former, of which the three published volumes relate wholly to ancient music, and thus represent a mere fragment of the author's vast plan, exhibits immense reading and industry, but is written in a dry and unattractive style, and is overloaded with matter which cannot be regarded as historical.