Sisebut
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Sisebut was King of the Visigoths and ruler of Hispania, Gallaecia, and Septimania from 612 until his death in 621. His rule was marked by forced Christian conversion, anti-Judaic measures, Roman-like
Golden Tremissis of Sisebutus rex
Statue (as imagined) of Sisebut in Toledo
Isidore of Seville
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Isidore of Seville was a Hispano-Roman scholar, theologian and archbishop of Seville. He is widely regarded, in the words of the 19th-century historian Charles Forbes René de Montalembert, as "the las
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…the martyrial basilica St. Leocadia in 618 at Toledo. From what is known, Sisebut was closely associated with the bishop, scholar, and encyclopaedist Isidore of Seville, and is even—regal trappings included—depicted as the author of a Latin poem on astronomy, Carmen de Luna or Praefatio de Libro Rotarum, dedicated to…
St. Isidore of Seville (1655), depicted by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
A statue of Isidore of Seville by José Alcoverro, 1892, outside the Biblioteca Nacional de España, in Madrid
Seville Cathedral. Sculpture by Lorenzo Mercadante de Bretaña
A page of Etymologiae, Carolingian manuscript (8th century), Brussels, Royal Library of Belgium