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List offigures page vii Preface: when it's ajar ix Introduction I Part One: Preliminaries II Prefatory correspondence and dedication 13 Index and referencing system 18 Conclusion 24 Part Two: Reading the Etymologiae 25 Primary education 27 I.1 Proem: seven at one blow 28 1.2 Grammar: the alphabet 31 1.3 Grammar proper 35 2.1 Rhetoric 43 2.2 Dialectic or rationalist philosophy 45 Secondary education: poly-mathematics 50 3.1 Arithmetic 50 3.2 Geometry 54 3.3 Music 55 3.4 Astronomy 57 4 Medicine 66 5 Law and history 72 6 Scripture and Christian duties 99 7 God, the angels, the saints 111 8 Church, schism, paganism 113 9 Languages, populations, societies 121 io Epithets: a thesaurus 140 S1 Mankind and monsters 143 12 Living creatures 149 13 World survey (water) 155 14 Earth survey (land) 164 15 Building, town, and country 174 16 Rocks and metals 181 17 Agriculture and botany 189 18 War and recreation 192 19 Ships, construction and decoration, clothing 199 20 Food and drink, packaging and transport, tools and harness 207 Conclusion: After words 210 Appendix: W. M. Lindsay and the scholarship on Isidore 212 Bibliography 214 Index locorum 221 Etymologies 224