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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II Isidore's Relation To Previous Culture It has been shown that by a combination of circumstances, geographical, political, and religious. Spain in Isidore's day was more fortunately situated than the remainder of western Europe. Conditions there were ripe for an expansion of intellectual interest beyond the narrow bounds to which the growth of religious prejudice and the uncertainties of life had reduced it. In this expansion, in which it was Isidore's part to lead, it was inevitable that the chief element should be an attempt to re-appropriate what had been lost in the preceding centuries, and to adapt it in some measure to the changed conditions of life and thought which had arisen. Isidore's relation to previous culture must, therefore, be examined. It appears certain, although perhaps it cannot be proved, that he was completely cut off from that world of thought, both Christian and pagan, which was expressed in the Greek language. The tradition of wide linguistic learning which was attached to him after his death and has not been questioned until recent times, has really nothing to rest upon.1 Isidore himself does not claim a knowledge 1 The oft-repeated expression, Latinis, Graecis et Hebroicit litteris m- structus, found in the Vita Sancti Isidori, deserves no attention. There is no historical basis for the assertion that Isidore knew Greek or Hebrew. In view of the time, it would be more reasonable to demand proof that he did know them rather than that he did not. As to his knowledge of Greek, see Dressel, Df Isidori Originum Fantibus in 35] 35 of Greek, and he seems to have relied on translations for whatever his works contain that is of Greek origin.1 He nowhere quotes a Greek sentence, and since the Etymologies and others of his works are practical...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781459032439
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 76
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1459032438
  • Publisher Date: 06 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 154 gr


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