The Medieval World Of Isidore Of Seville : Truth from Words塞维亚主教圣依希多洛的中世纪世界
分類: 图书,进口原版书,文学 Literature,
作者: John Henderson著
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出版时间: 2007-3-1字数:版次:页数: 232印刷时间: 2007/03/01开本: 16开印次:纸张: 胶版纸I S B N : 9780521867405包装: 精装内容简介
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.
作者简介:
John Henderson is Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King's College.
目录
List of figures
Preface: when it's ajar
Introduction
Part One: Preliminaries
Prefatory correspondence and dedication
Index and referencing system
Conclusion
Part Two: Reading the Etymologiae
Primary education
I.I Proem: seven at one blow
1.2 Grammar: the alphabet
1.3 Grammar proper
2.1 Rhetoric
2.2 Dialectic or rationalist philosophy
Secondary education: poly-mathematics
3.1 Arithmetic
3.z Geometry
3.3 Music
3.4 Astronomy
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
2o Food and drink, packaging and transport, tools and
harness
Conclusion: After words
Appendix." W. M. Lindsay and the scholarship on Isidore
Bibliography
Index locorum
Etymologies
General index
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