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In the first half of 7th century AD, Isidore of Seville compiled Etymologiae which went on to become the most widely used encyclopaedia in Europe for nearly a thousand years. Historian Janina Ramirez tells Bridget Kendall how Isidore brought together a wide range of knowledge from classical antiquity. Photo: St Isidore by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 1655 (Wikimedia Commons)