This volume examines how power was framed in Visigothic society and how a culturally diverse population was held together as a single kingdom. Through this dynamic process a new early medieval society emerged. This transformation involved the deployment of an array of political and cultural resources: the production of knowledge; the appropriation of Patristic literature; controlling and administering rural populations; reconceptualizing the sacred; capital punishment and exile; controlling the manufacture of currency; and defining Visigothic society in relation to other polities. This volume brings together researchers from a variety of disciplines to rethink frameworks of power in the Peninsula in both historical and archaeological as well as anthropological terms, offering a new understanding of Iberian society as a whole.