Comments on: When Isidore a Window? http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/04/when-isidore-a-window/ Mike Aquilina's Blog Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:36:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ryan McDermott http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/04/when-isidore-a-window/comment-page-1/#comment-619537 Ryan McDermott Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:08:17 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/04/when-isidore-a-window/#comment-619537 I just received the two volumes of Priscilla Throop's translation of Isidore's Etymologies. From a brief once-over, it looks like a very impressive piece of scholarship. I'll still probably have to quote from the recent Cambridge translation, since that will probably take on the status of definitive edition, but for a reading copy, this is great. And I actually think only copies affordable to grad students should be the standard works to quote from--provided, of course, the editing and translation are up to snuff. Here's a question for the blogosphere: who is Priscilla Throop? Who would engage in a labor of love like this, with no hope of profit, and without the usual academic incentives for such thankless tasks? And who is the handsome man in the small picture on the back cover of the Isidore translations? It's definitely not Isidore! (Could it be Patrick Stewart??) Ryan McDermott Medievalist-in-training University of Virginia I just received the two volumes of Priscilla Throop’s translation of Isidore’s Etymologies. From a brief once-over, it looks like a very impressive piece of scholarship. I’ll still probably have to quote from the recent Cambridge translation, since that will probably take on the status of definitive edition, but for a reading copy, this is great. And I actually think only copies affordable to grad students should be the standard works to quote from–provided, of course, the editing and translation are up to snuff.

Here’s a question for the blogosphere: who is Priscilla Throop? Who would engage in a labor of love like this, with no hope of profit, and without the usual academic incentives for such thankless tasks? And who is the handsome man in the small picture on the back cover of the Isidore translations? It’s definitely not Isidore! (Could it be Patrick Stewart??)

Ryan McDermott
Medievalist-in-training
University of Virginia

]]> By: priscilla throop http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/04/when-isidore-a-window/comment-page-1/#comment-4105 priscilla throop Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:21:25 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/04/when-isidore-a-window/#comment-4105 My translation of Isidore of Seville's Etymologies came out in December 2005. It is available through Lulu.com Pictures of the covers (it's a two volume paperback) appear there...I don't know what happened to the pics on Amazon. My translation of Isidore of Seville’s Etymologies came out in December 2005. It is available through Lulu.com Pictures of the covers (it’s a two volume paperback) appear there…I don’t know what happened to the pics on Amazon.

]]> By: Mike http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/04/when-isidore-a-window/comment-page-1/#comment-1749 Mike Sat, 05 Aug 2006 01:48:12 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/04/when-isidore-a-window/#comment-1749 Thanks for pointing it out. It does seem to be two different editions, but both published this year. My guess is that the edition reviewed in the Telegraph is not yet available in the States. I'll move the Amazon links. Thanks for pointing it out. It does seem to be two different editions, but both published this year. My guess is that the edition reviewed in the Telegraph is not yet available in the States. I’ll move the Amazon links.

]]> By: Dennis Martin http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/04/when-isidore-a-window/comment-page-1/#comment-1748 Dennis Martin Sat, 05 Aug 2006 01:12:47 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/04/when-isidore-a-window/#comment-1748 There seem to be two different translations involved? One by Barney, Lewis, Beach, Berhof, published by Cambridge (reviewed in the London Times) and one by Priscilla Throop published in Charlotte, Vermont? Can you clarify what's going on here? There seem to be two different translations involved? One by Barney, Lewis, Beach, Berhof, published by Cambridge (reviewed in the London Times) and one by Priscilla Throop published in Charlotte, Vermont? Can you clarify what’s going on here?

]]> By: Jeremy Abel http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/04/when-isidore-a-window/comment-page-1/#comment-1743 Jeremy Abel Fri, 04 Aug 2006 20:43:10 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/04/when-isidore-a-window/#comment-1743 Unbelievable. I'm going to hire you to write titles for my posts. Unbelievable. I’m going to hire you to write titles for my posts.

]]> By: Julie D. http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/04/when-isidore-a-window/comment-page-1/#comment-1740 Julie D. Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:51:29 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/04/when-isidore-a-window/#comment-1740 Aaargh! Aaargh!

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