@article{Krynicka_2021, title={Choroba w wybranych pismach Izydora z Sewilli}, volume={78}, url={https://czasopisma.kul.pl/index.php/vp/article/view/12224}, DOI={10.31743/vp.12224}, abstractNote={<p>Isidore looks at the world in the light of the Revelation, so that his look becomes really broad. He does not oppose the terrestrial to the eternal: in his feeling they permeate each other and make up the entirety of God’s work. Writing about the disease, he underlines that it is unconditionally evil. He studies its physical and spiritual causes and seeks both natural and supernatural remedies. He believes we may and even have to look for doctors’ help, he knows and respects ancient medicine’s legacy, but at the same time he considers sickness to be a result of the human sin and stresses that the true health can be achieved only by living in unity with God. In Isidore’s opinion the most dangerous illness is that of human spirit, i.e. the sin. As to the terrestrial maladies, he describes in the most profusive way the plague. He uses metaphors related to disease in order to describe the reality of sin; employing means of allegorical interpretation of the Holy Writ, he regards sickness as a symbol of spiritual evil. He emphasizes that the sick deserve to be cared for and treated with kindness; he describes nursing the sick monks.  He informs that apostle Paul cured his disciple and presents Christ as a great doctor of the mankind. Isidore himself experimented diseases. He faced them accordingly to what he recommended to the others, bravely and patiently looking for the <em>vita vitalis</em>, for which all of us have been created and saved. </p>}, journal={Vox Patrum}, author={Krynicka, Tatiana}, year={2021}, month={Jun.}, pages={467–498} }