Finding the Right Words – Isidore`s Synonyma in Anglo–Saxon England Di Sciacca

Finding the Right WordsIsidore's Synonyma in Anglo-Saxon England\nAuthor(s): Claudia Di Sciacca\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9780802091291, 978-0802091291\nSynopsis\nIsidore of Seville (circa [tel] was the author of the Etymologiae,. the most celebrated and widely circulated encyclopaedia of the western Middle Ages. In addition, Isidore's Synonyma were very successful and became one of the classics of medieval spirituality. Indeed, it was the Synonyma that were to define the so-called 'Isidorian style,' a rhymed, rhythmic prose that proved influential throughout the Middle Ages.\n\n Finding the Right Words is the first book-length study to deal with the transmission and reception of works by Isidore of Seville in Anglo-Saxon England, with a particular focus on the Synonyma. Beginning with a general survey of Isidore's life and activity as a bishop in early seventh-century Visigothic Spain, Claudia Di.