medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Ernest Brehaut (1873-1953) wrote an outstanding book about Saint Isidore of
Seville (An Encyclopedist Of The Dark Ages: Isidore Of Seville).
Should you want to get the PDF version of this book and read more about this
Saint, you should go to this page:
http://bestiary.ca/etexts/brehaut1912/brehaut1912.htm
or on this one:
http://bestiary.ca/etexts/brehaut1912/Brehaut%20-%20Encyclopedist%20of%20the%20Dark%20Ages.pdf
and you can get the full edition on PDF here.
Aïda M. Benitez i Rexach
«Non dimitere credere pro credere, sed pro intelligere» (Ramon Llull)
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From: "Phyllis Jestice" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: [M-R] saints of the day 4. April
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> Today (4. April) is the feast day of:
>
> Isidore of Seville (d. 636) Isidore was born to an upper-class
> Romano-Spanish family. He succeeded his brother Leander as bishop of
> Sevill in c. 600. He was a good bishop and a very major writer,
> encouraging a scholarly revival in Visigothic Spain and personally pulling
> together a great deal of classical knowledge for use by later generations,
> most notably in the *Etymologiae*.
>
> Plato (d. 814) Plato was raised in Constantinople. He was an imperial
> treasurer, but gave it up to become a monk on Mt. Olympus (Bithynia). In
> 770 P. became abbot, eventually moving on to a hermitage. He was exiled
> twice because of his annoying habit of criticizing the emperor's morals.
>
> Peter of Poitiers (d. 1115) Peter became bishop of Poitiers in 1087,
> after serving as archdeacon. He's another one of those obnoxious clerics
> who liked to denounce immorality in high places, in his case Philip I of
> France
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