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Local Citizenships and the Visigothic Kingdom
In recent decades, ethnicity and ethnic identity have been one of the main issues of academic discussions of late antique and early medieval studies – including in Visigothic Iberia. Even if the tendency to correlate race and ethnicity has largely ended, the debate on the role of Goths and Romans in the Visigothic kingdom is still ongoing.
Martínez Jiménez, Javier +1 more
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west
This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
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Art wisigoth en Hispania : en quête d’une révision nécessaire
Understanding the definition of “Visigoth” in artistic and material culture in regards to the latest research on the subject is no simple task, and never has been.
Gisela Ripoll, Eduardo Carrero
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Kurt, A. (2020): Minting, State and Economy in the Visigothic Kingdom
Cruces Blázquez Cerrato
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This paper is an introduction of the monographic section about The collapse of the early medieval European kingdoms (8th-9th centuries). Firstly, the different interpretations of collapse in human societies are reviewed. Against the views which highlight
Iñaki Martín Viso
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The date and context of the Astronomer's Life of Louis the Pious
The Astronomer's Life of the emperor Louis the Pious (814–40) is a canonical source for scholars of Frankish history. It sits at the centre of recent debates about the nature and tone of Carolingian political discourse, and about the crisis of the empire in the 830s.
Simon MacLean
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Debates surrounding late antique societies have attracted renewed interest from an archaeological perspective. Attention given to this period between the fifth and the eighth centuries reflects present-day issues closely related to urban landscapes and
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Based on the notion posed by S. Teillet that the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo in its latter stages came to be fully identified with Hispania, as well as on the fact that there was real and evident continuity between the Visigothic Kingdom and the Kingdom
Julia Montenegro, Arcadio del Castillo
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Amateur justice in Carolingian Bavaria
This paper examines judges and judgement in Bavarian dispute charters from the first decades of the ninth century. It argues that justice in Carolingian Bavaria was an amateur affair, in which of primary importance was the ability to create a stable consensus around an outcome. Accordingly, distinctions between judges and other participants in judicial
Amos Bronner
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Between theft and treason: latrocinium in Carolingian capitularies
Suppressing robbery, latrocinium, was a priority for Charlemagne, Louis the Pious, Charles the Bald, and Louis II at key political moments. Latrones were conceptualized as ordinary thieves, as highway robbers, and as threats to peace and security. In capitularies, latrocinium was implicitly and explicitly associated with infidelity.
James R. Burns
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