In the view of John T. Hamilton, writing in "The Classical Tradition" in 2010, "Our knowledge of ancient and early medieval thought owes an enormous amount to this encyclopedia, a reflective catalogue of received wisdom, which the authors of the only complete translation into English introduce as "arguably the most influential book, after the Bible, in the learned world of the Latin West for nearly a thousand years" These days, of course, Isidore and his "Etymologies" are anything but household names... but the Vatican has named Isidore the patron saint of the Internet, which is likely to make his work slightly better known.