Isidore of Seville
Hispano-Roman scholar, theologian and bishop (c. 560–636)
b. c. 560 · d. 4 Apr 636
Isidore of Seville was a Hispano-Roman scholar, theologian and archbishop of Seville. He is widely regarded, in the words of the 19th-century historian Charles Forbes René de Montalembert, as "the last scholar of the ancient world".
Related people
- Fulgentius of Cartagena sibling of · traditional
- Florentina sibling of · traditional
- Leander of Seville sibling of · traditional
- Pimenio consecrator of · traditional
- Braulio of Zaragoza teacher of · traditional
Works
- Etymologiae
- Historia de regibus Gothorum, Vandalorum et Suevorum 7th century
- De natura rerum
- Carmina
- De fide catholica contra Iudaeos
- De ortu et obitu patrum
- De ecclesiasticis officiis
- Regula monachorum
- In libros Veteris ac Novi Testamenti prooemia
- Allegoriae
- Differentiae
- Sententiarum libri tres
- Synonyma
- Chronica Maiora
- Sinonimes
- Versus
- On illustrious men 7th century
- Las Etimologias de san Isidoro romanceadas
- De differentiis verborum
- De differentiis rerum
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Places
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils 1 claim — Fourth Council of Toledo