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Rome and Byzantium in the Visigothic Kingdom

2023
This volume interrogates the assumption that Visigothic practices and institutions were mere imitations of the Byzantine empire. Contributors rethink these practices not as uncritical and derivative adoptions of Byzantine customs, but as dynamic processes in dialogue with not only the Byzantine empire but also with the contemporary Iberian context, as ...
Fernández, Damián   +2 more
exaly   +5 more sources

The Catholic Visigothic kingdom

2005
In the spring of 586 King Leovigild was succeeded by his son Reccared. Reccared, abandoned Arianism and converted to the Catholic faith, and which, was intended to complete the political achievements of his father by ensuring the support of the nobility of Roman origin and the Catholic Church.
A. Barbero, M. I. Loring
exaly   +2 more sources

Minting, State, and Economy in the Visigothic Kingdom

2020
This study of the Visigothic kingdom monetary system in southern Gaul and Hispania from the fifth century through the Muslim invasion of Spain fills a major gap in the scholarship of late antiquity. Examining all aspects of the making of currency, it sets minting in relation to questions of state - monarchical power, administration and apparatus ...
exaly   +4 more sources

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