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The Legal Conviction of Male Homosexuality in the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo
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
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The Alfonso II charter of 812 supports our theory that the Kingdom of Asturias was a continuation of the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo. From a reading of the document it can be deduced that the determination to recover Hispania stood at the heart of what we call the Reconquest, and therefore simply constituted an attempt to recover the ancient ...
Montenegro, Julia, del Castillo, Arcadio
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Montenegro Julia, Del Castillo Arcadio. An Unusual Episode in the Historiography of the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo: Wamba as Instigator in the Repudiation of Cixilo by Egica. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 84, fasc. 2, 2006. Histoire medievale, moderne et contemporaine - Middeleeuwse. moderne en hedendaagse geschiedenis. pp.
Montenegro, Julia, del Castillo, Arcadio
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Del Castillo Arcadio, Montenegro Julia. The Chronology of the Reign of Witiza in the Sources: an Historiographical Problem in the Final Years of the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 80, fasc. 2, 2002. Histoire médiévale, moderne et contemporaine - Middeleeewse. moderne en hedendaagse geschiedenis. pp.
del Castillo, Arcadio, Montenegro, Julia
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With the settlement of the barbarians within the Roman Empire, during the fourth and fifth centuries, one way in which their integration took place was in relation to the Late Roman Army. At this point, barbarians and Romans exchanged traits related to a military identity, which worked as well as an element of cohesion.
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"Auctoritas" and "potestas" as a metaphor for the bishop’s role models in the canons of the Councils of Toledo of the 7th century [PDF]
The article is concerned with the key medieval opposition between auctoritas and potestas. It is explored in connection with the figure of the bishop as mainly exemplified in the canons of the Councils of Toledo.
Mikhail Birkin
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Assessing place‐based identities in the early Middle Ages: a proposal for post‐Roman Iberia
Sociological models of place‐based identity can be used to better understand the social dynamics of local communities and how they interact with their surroundings. This paper explores how these theoretical models of belonging to a place, in tandem with communal cognitive maps, can be applied to post‐Roman contexts, taking the Iberian Peninsula in the ...
Javier Martínez Jiménez +1 more
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In the early medieval west, patronate, as adapted from Roman law, was a fundamental category in determining the legal status of freedmen. In many cases it entailed a basic set of obligations. In an increasing number of situations, however, the patron became an ecclesiastical institution, since slaves and freed persons were often given to churches and ...
Stefan Esders
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The admission of former slaves into churches and monasteries: reaching behind the sources
Religious institutions in early medieval Europe were both recipients of former slaves and instigators of manumissions. By drawing on recent work concerning the admission of former slaves into churches and monasteries, the present paper identifies dominant strands in the historiography from Marc Bloch to the present, which are then re‐evaluated in light
Roy Flechner, Janel Fontaine
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