Encyclopaedia of Isidore of Seville as polyphony(based on Etymologiae, I–III)
Encyclopaedia of Isidore of Seville as polyphony(based on Etymologiae, I–III)

Summary/Abstract: The life of Isidore hid under the shadow of his writing. Generations of Europeans learned about the world from its most famous work – Etymologiae. The author of this impressive compilation was a bishop dedicated to God’s people, advisor to Visigoth rulers, propagator of monastic life, ardent preacher, benefactor of the poor, leader of synod sessions. He was neither a scholar, nor a traveller, not a lawyer, a farmer or a doctor. His knowledge of the world was literary. Etymologiae was a kind of a cento, whose building blocks were breves tabellae (passages from works of other writers). In effect, Etymologiae may be considered a polyphonic work, from which the voice of the author himself reaches the reader from afar.

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