The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville - Barney, Stephen A. / Lewis, W. J. / Beach, J. A. / Berghof, Oliver (eds.)
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The book gives the first complete English translation of the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville, the main resource of learning in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. A fundamental repository of classical and early medieval knowledge, the Etymologies explores and examines hundreds of subjects, from the names of God to cooking utensils. This highly-readable translation of all twenty books of the Etymologies gives the student of late classical antiquity, medieval thought and the history of Western thought access to one of the key texts of the last one thousand years.

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The book gives the first complete English translation of the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville, the main resource of learning in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. A fundamental repository of classical and early medieval knowledge, the Etymologies explores and examines hundreds of subjects, from the names of God to cooking utensils. This highly-readable translation of all twenty books of the Etymologies gives the student of late classical antiquity, medieval thought and the history of Western thought access to one of the key texts of the last one thousand years.
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).