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The Church Fathers · c. 612–615

The Sentences

Sententiae

Isidore of Seville · c. 560–636

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What it is

Three books of doctrine and moral instruction assembled almost entirely from Augustine and Gregory the Great, arranged by topic.

Why it lasted

The first medieval book of sentences, and the model for the compilation method that Peter Lombard would perfect five centuries later.

Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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