Martianus, Aventius and Isidore: provincial councils in seventh‐century Spain

Stocking, Rachel L.

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“…Córdoba's victory over Agila was a clear demonstration of its independence from Visigothic royal authority. Although later chroniclers attempted to present this episode as an act of rebellion, Visigothic political and military power cannot have extended far into 41 The case is discussed in some detail in Stocking 1997. 42 Collins 1980.…”

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The Visigothic Kingdom

Panzram¹,

Pachá²,

Arce³

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How did the breakdown of Roman rule in the Iberian Peninsula eventually result in the formation of a Visigothic kingdom with authority centralised in Toledo? This collection of essays challenges the view that local powers were straightforwardly subjugated to the expanding central power of the monarchy. Rather than interpret countervailing events as mere ‘delays’ in this inevitable process, the contributors to this book interrogate where these events came from, which causes can be uncovered and how much influence individual actors had in this process. What emerges is a story of contested interests seeking cooperation through institutions and social practices that were flexible enough to stabilise a system that was hierarchical yet mutually beneficial for multiple social groups. By examining the Visigothic settlement, the interplay between central and local power, the use of ethnic identity, projections of authority, and the role of the Church, this book articulates a model for understanding the formation of a large and important early medieval kingdom.

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The Visigothic Kingdom

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Arce³

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“…Contact between the churches of the provinces and the putative centre in Toledo was often equally strained. 10 Relations between Visigothic royalty and external powers, including the Byzantine Empire, other barbarian kingdoms and the papacy, were also highly affected by the tension between the desire to adhere to diplomatic niceties and the need to get things done on the ground. Rhetorical opposition was often balanced by pragmatic considerations.…”

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New Directions in the Study of Visigothic Spain

Wood

Jiménez

2016

History Compass

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Since the fall of the Visigothic kingdom in 711, analysis of its history has been tied to contemporary Spanish politics. Political and economic developments in Spain since the 1970s have driven research into the late antique and early medieval period. Most notably, archaeological evidence has come to play a much more prominent role in analyses of the Visigothic period in Spain. This article synthesises archaeological and historical research from the past 20 years. It draws on recent developments in urban and rural archaeology in order to examine key avenues of research on the period: the negotiated nature of power, post-Roman identity politics, and law and literacy.In recent decades, there has been a burgeoning interest in the study of late antique and early medieval Spanish history. A number of factors have contributed to this development: the collapse of the Franco regime and its teleological and single-purpose historiographical discourse, a higher degree of collaboration between Spanish and non-Spanish scholars, which has broken the 'language barrier' that in the past hindered interactions between Spanish academia and other scholarly traditions 1 and the large amount of material obtained from the boom in commercial archaeology in the 1990s and early 2000s. The main objective of this article is to sketch brief ly some of the current themes in Visigothic studies, from historical and archaeological perspectives, citing many of the main scholars, publications and research projects of the past 20 years (since 1995). Although traditional scholarship has traced the origins of Spain to the Visigothic period, current approaches to the topic generally seek to move away from this monolithic view. Key trends in this movement away from this singular vision of the Visigothic period are the creation and interaction of central and local powers (and the methodologies by which these can be identified), the nature of power relationships and identity (or, more accurately, identities).The breakdown of the Roman system is the key starting point for understanding a Visigothic period (mid-fifth to early eighth century) characterised by the emergence of a series of new power structures and relationships. Historical studies of the Visigothic period in Spain have traditionally been framed in terms of binaries of power. The dominant paradigms were of underlying tension often exploding into open conf lict between royalty and aristocracy, between church and state, between Goths and Romans and between Nicene ('Catholic', 'orthodox') Christians and all kinds of 'deviant' groups ( Jews, 'Arians'). These oppositions used to dominate conceptualisations of the Spanish political, social and religious landscape after the end of the Western Roman Empire and, more recently, scholarship has begun to reveal, are the result of scholars' uncritical acceptance of royal and ecclesiastical sources written from a 'centre-ist' perspective.2 Churchmen such as Isidore of Seville, the seventh century bishops of Toledo and the Visigothic royal laws pres...

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Privilegios episcopales: la inviolabilidad de los obispos visigóticos y el delito de lesa majestad

Maldonado

2021

ETFIII

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En estas páginas se señala cómo la naturaleza sagrada del sacerdocio, y por tanto su inviolabilidad, no puso a salvo de maltratos y violencias a los obispos visigóticos, pero sí evitó que se atentase contra sus vidas, al menos de forma pública y por los poderes públicos. Esta consideración adquiere relevancia en el caso de los delitos de lesa majestad, constituyendo un privilegio personal de importancia en el inestable Reino Visigodo.

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Martianus, Aventius and Isidore: provincial councils in seventh‐century Spain

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The Visigothic Kingdom

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New Directions in the Study of Visigothic Spain

Privilegios episcopales: la inviolabilidad de los obispos visigóticos y el delito de lesa majestad

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