Isidore of Seville

Isidore of Seville (c. 560–636), archbishop and encyclopedist, is often called the last of the Latin Fathers. His Etymologiae gathered the learning of antiquity for the medieval West, and his biblical and theological works helped bridge the patristic and medieval ages. A Doctor of the Church.

Often called the last of the Latin Fathers, Isidore gathered the learning of the ancient world into his Etymologiae, a vast encyclopedia that served the medieval West as a reference library for centuries, including much on the books, persons, and places of Scripture. His biblical and theological handbooks helped carry the patristic inheritance across the divide into the Middle Ages.