Etymologies of Isidore of Seville (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This work is a complete English translation of the Latin Etymologies of Isidore, Bishop of Seville (c.560-636). Isidore compiled the work between c.615 and the early 630s and it takes the form of an encyclopedia, arranged by subject matter. It contains much lore of the late classical world beginning with the Seven Liberal Arts, including Rhetoric, and touches on thousands of topics ranging from the names of God, the terminology of the Law, the technologies of fabrics, ships and agriculture to the names of cities and rivers, the theatrical arts, and cooking utensils. Isidore provides etymologies for most of the terms he explains, finding in the causes of words the underlying key to their meaning. This book offers a highly readable translation of the twenty books of the Etymologies, one of the most widely known texts for a thousand years from Isidore's time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511217593
• Artikelnr.: 38190606

Autorenporträt

Stephen A. Barney is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. He edited and annotated Chaucer's Troilus for The Riverside Chaucer (Houghton Mifflin,1987), and among his books are Word-Hoard (Yale University Press, 1977), Allegories of History, Allegories of Love (Archon, 1978), Studies in Troilus (Colleagues, 1993), and A Commentary on 'Piers Plowman' (University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming).
W. J. Lewis is a translator and editor. Her previous translations include two works by Galen: Hippocrates on the Nature of Man and On the Elements According to Hippocrates and she co-translated On the Properties of Discourse: A Translation of Tractatus de Proprietatibus Sermonum with Stephen Barney, Calvin Normore and Terence Parsons (1997).
Jennifer Beach is an independent Classics scholar and senior documenter for a software engineering company. She worked for several years at the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae and continues to explore the relationship between Classics and computer technology.
Oliver Berghof is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at California State University, San Marcos and lecturer in humanities at University of California, Irvine. His previous publications include Georg Forster: A Voyage Round the World (ed. with Nicholas Thomas) (University of Hawai'i Press, 2000).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Correspondence of Isidore and Braulio; The Etymologies: I: Grammar and its parts; II. Rhetoric and dialectic; III. Mathematics
whose parts are arithmetic
music
geometry
and astronomy; IV. Medicine; V. Laws and the instruments of the judiciary
and chronology; VI. The order of scripture
cycles and canons
liturgical feasts and offices; VII. Gods and angels
prophetic nomenclature
names of the holy fathers
martyrs
clerics
monks
and other names; VIII. Church and synagogue
religion and faith
heresies
philosophers
poets
sibyls
magicians
pagans
gods of the gentiles; IX. Languages of the nations
royal
military
and civic terminology
family relationships; X. Certain terms in alphabetical order; XI. Human beings and their parts
the ages of humans
portents and metamorphoses; XII. Four-footed animals
creeping animals
fish
and flying animals; XIII. Elements
that is
the heavens and the air
waters
the sea
rivers and floods; XIV. Earth
paradise
the regions of the whole globe
islands
mountains
other terms for places
and the lower regions of the earth; XV. Cities
urban and rural buildings
fields
boundaries and measures of fields
roads; XVI. Earthly materials from land and water
every kind of gem and precious stones
ivory likewise
treated along with marble
glass
all the metals
weights and measures; XVII. Agriculture
crops of every kind
vines and trees of every kind
herbs and all vegetables; XVIII. Wars and triumphs and the instruments of war
the forum
spectacles
games of chance and ball games; XIX. Ships
ropes
and nets
iron workers
the construction of walls and all the implements of building
also wool-working
ornaments
and all kinds of clothing; XX. Tables
foodstuffs
drink
and their vessels
vessels for wine
water
and oil
vessels of cooks
bakers
and lamps
beds
chairs
vehicles
rural and garden implements
equestrian equipment.