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Isidore of Seville was a teacher of liberal arts at the beginning of the Dark Ages, who was primarily known by his encyclopedic knowledge and his famous scholarly texts. Isidore tried fervently to fit all the secular knowledge available in his time into a Christian worldview, often with a great dose of eclecticism and hardly any criticism. Nevertheless, he provided the system educational of his day with classic and scientific knowledge and preserved this information for future medieval authors.
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D’Onofrio, S. (2020). Isidore of Seville. In: Lagerlund, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1665-7_249
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