Università Roma Tre

Title of the teaching module:
The construction of the doctrinal lexicon in the late antique West: the "Liber differentiarum [II]" of Isidore of Seville
The module, monographic in nature, intends to introduce to the knowledge of the doctrinal vocabulary that conveys much of the culture, mentality and imagery of ancient and late antique Christian authors, starting from the reading and analysis of a work in which the most mature outcomes of the author's design of the Etymologiae to elaborate and transmit to his audience a synthesis of the cultural and 'sapiential' heritage of the past are prefigured. - As part of the module, exercises aimed at orienting to the knowledge and critical use of the main digital resources for the study and research on Christian authors of Late Antiquity will also be integrated.

- ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS, Liber differentiarum [II], cura et studio M. A. Andrés Sanz, Ed. Brepols, Turnhout 2006 (Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina 111A).
- M. A. ANDRÉS SANZ, Relación y transmisión manuscrita de los tres libros de Differentiae editados en P.L. 83 (Isidoro de Sevilla). In: “Revue d'histoire des textes” 30 (2000), 2001, pp. 239-262.
- G. BRUGNOLI, Il ‘Liber de differentiis rerum’ di Isidoro di Siviglia, in “Vetera Christianorum” 1 (1964), pp. 65-82.
- M. C. DIAZ Y DIAZ, Enciclopedismo e sapere cristiano tra tardo-antico e alto medioevo, trad. it., Ed. Jaca Book, Milano 1999.
- F. TRISOGLIO, Introduzione a Isidoro di Siviglia, Ed. Morcelliana, Brescia 2009.