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Drought as a possible contributor to the Visigothic Kingdom crisis and Islamic expansion in the Iberian Peninsula [PDF]

open access: yesNature Communications, 2023
The Muslim expansion in the Mediterranean basin was one the most relevant and rapid cultural changes in human history. This expansion reached the Iberian Peninsula with the replacement of the Visigothic Kingdom by the Muslim Umayyad Caliphate and the ...
Jon Camuera   +7 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Ancient <i>Yersinia pestis</i> genomes from across Western Europe reveal early diversification during the First Pandemic (541-750). [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2019
The first historically documented pandemic caused by Yersinia pestis began as the Justinianic Plague in 541 within the Roman Empire and continued as the so-called First Pandemic until 750.
Keller M   +25 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

A lead isotope perspective on urban development in ancient Naples. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2016
The influence of a sophisticated water distribution system on urban development in Roman times is tested against the impact of Vesuvius volcanic activity, in particular the great eruption of AD 79, on all of the ancient cities of the Bay of Naples ...
Delile H   +6 more
europepmc   +4 more sources

The Legal Conviction of Male Homosexuality in the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo

open access: yesStudia Historica: Historia Antigua, 2020
The objective of this work is to analyze the provisions against male homosexuality, uncommon in 7th century Western society, which came to light in the Visigothic kingdom of Toledo.
Rosario VALVERDE CASTRO
doaj   +2 more sources

Unity from disunity: law, rhetoric and power in the Visigothic kingdom

open access: yesEuropean Review of History/Revue Europeenne D'Histoire, 2009
This paper explores the relationship between the 'Church' and the 'State' in the Visigothic kingdom of sixth- and seventh-century Spain. The authors examine the copious legal material from this period - both church council records and royal legislation - to see what it reveals about the significant degree of interpenetration of the two spheres.
Jamie Wood
exaly   +2 more sources

Reseña del libro Panzram, Sabine y Pachá, Paulo (eds.). The Visigothic Kingdom. The Negotiation of Power in Post-Roman Iberia. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. (408 pp.)

open access: yesSociedades Precapitalistas, 2021
Reseña del libro The Visigothic Kingdom. The Negotiation of Power in Post-Roman Iberia de S. Panzram y P. Pachá (eds.).
Sabrina Soledad Orlowski
doaj   +1 more source

Toulouse (Tolosa), capitale wisigothique du ve siècle : sources historiques et archéologiques

open access: yesPallas, 2020
The city of Toulouse, known as Tolosa during the Roman period, has generally been considered as the capital of the fifth century Visigothic kingdom.
Jean Cassaigneau
doaj   +1 more source

Land, freedom and the making of the medieval West [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
In the course of the fifth and sixth centuries, barbarian warbands acquired property rights in the former provinces of the Roman west, in a process that established the broad structural characteristics of early medieval society in western Europe: that is
Innes, Matthew
core   +1 more source

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