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Isidore of Seville
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[The abbot] will exhibit himself as one to be imitated in all examples of works; nor shall anyone be allowed to command anything that he has not done himself.
— Regula Monachorum, 2,2.
Isidore of Seville
Hispano-Roman scholar, theologian and bishop (c. 560–636)
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A 7th-century archbishop who wrote an encyclopedia salvaging fragments of the classical world just as it was vanishing — and in doing so, preserved chunks of antiquity that would otherwise be gone.
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Born around 560 into Hispano-Roman nobility, Isidore grew up in a disintegrating landscape: classical culture crumbling, violence routine, literacy rare. He and his brother Leander worked to convert the Arian Visigothic kings to Catholicism, and after Leander died, Isidore carried on, gaining influence in the court of King Sisebut and playing a central role in the Councils of Toledo and Seville. His lasting work was the Etymologiae, an etymological encyclopedia that pulled together extracts from classical texts — many of which survive only because he copied them. The book also helped standardi…
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Isidore of Seville
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Through idleness, lusts and harmful thoughts grow, but through the exercise of labor, vices are likewise diminished.
— Regula Monachorum, 5,1.
Isidore of Seville
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If [the monks] wish to devote themselves to reading so that they do not work, they are contumacious to reading itself, because they do not do what they read there.
— Regula Monachorum, 5,4.
Isidore of Seville
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Monks who are working should meditate or sing so that they may be consoled in their labor by the delight of the words and songs of God.
— Regula Monachorum, 5,5.
Isidore of Seville
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Offenses are either grave or light.
— Regula Monachorum, 17,1.
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