Framing power in Visigothic society : discourses, devices, and artifacts / edited by Ce̹line Martin and Eleonora Dell'Elicine.

This volume examines how power was framed in Visigothic society and how a diverse population with a complex and often conflicting cultural inheritance was thereby held together as a single kingdom. Indeed, through this dynamic process a new, early medieval society emerged. Understanding this transfo...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Other Authors: Martin, Ce̹line (Editor), Dell'Elicine, Eleonora (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:No linguistic content
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2020.
Series:Late antique and early medieval Iberia ; 7.
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Table of Contents:
  • Texts, discourses, and devices : reading Visigothic society today / Eleonora Dell'Elicine and Celine Martin
  • Presence of Augustine of Hippo in Isidore of Seville : some provisional remarks / Jacques Elfassi
  • The bishop and the word : Isidore of Seville and the production of meaning / Dolores Castro
  • Unearthing peasant societies : historiography and recent contributions in the archaeology of the rural world during Visigothic times / Carlos Tejerizo
  • Excolentes sacra fontium vel arborum : pagan cults, kinship, and regimes of sacralization in the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo / Eleonora Dell' Elicine
  • Ervig and capital penalties : the way of exile / Celine Martin
  • 'Put all your trust in Ansemundus' : a look at distrust in Visigothic-Byzantine diplomatic relations / Margarita Vallejo
  • Visigothic currency : recent developments and data for its study / Ruth Pliego.