Tyrannical power of the bishop and social space: The case of Mérida in the late 6th century
The article focuses on the figure of an evil bishop in the “Lives of the Fathers of Merida” in the context of the image of a tyrant. The figures of the king and the bishop, on the one hand, and the tyrant and the bad bishop, on the other, are shown to be
M. Yu. Birkin
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Western Connections of Northeast Africa: The Garnet Evidence from Late Antique Nubia, Sudan
Outstanding garnet beads were found recently in an elite tumulus dated to the fourth century AD and located at the cemetery of Hagar el‐Beida in the Upper Nubian Nile Valley region. Whereas contacts of Northeast Africa with South Asia have just been proven through analysis of glass beads found in Nubia and dating to the time of intensive Indian Ocean ...
J. Then‐Obłuska +3 more
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Pope Leo of Bourges, clerical immunity and the early medieval secular
This article investigates the early medieval secular through the lens of clerical immunity – that is, the legal exemption of clerics from courts labelled as secular. It focusses on a short text, eventually attributed to Pope Leo, which was written in fifth‐century Gaul to define this immunity.
Charles West
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Continuity, transformation and extinction of the curiae in Spain from the 4th to the 9th centuries
The article deals with the historical destiny of the curiae and other institutions connected with them in the system of Roman free cities-municipia. The common opinion of experts (C. Sánchez Albornoz, M. I. Rostovtzeff, A. H. M. Jones and some others) is
L. A. García Moreno
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Principles of formation of clerical identity in Isidore’s of Seville treatise On ecclesiastical offices [PDF]
This article studies the notion of the clergy of Isidore of Seville (ca. 560–636). The main source is the treatise “On Ecclesiastical Offi ces”, which was not studied from this point of view before.
Mikhail Birkin
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This paper’s objective is to analyze the transformations in Visigothic provincial organization, as related to the development of the integration process of the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo. To achieve this objective, I divided the paper in three sections:
Paulo Pachá
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El Papel de la Providencia: el juicio de Dios como categoría histórica en la historiografía visigoda
En este trabajo queremos destacar el papel que juega la providencia en el devenir de los acontecimientos dentro de las obras de los tres historiadores más icónicos del reino visigodo de Toledo.
JOSE ANGEL CASTILLO LOZANO
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La enigmática figura de Suniefredo a la luz de sus emisiones monetales [PDF]
In this study we analyze the Suniefredo's role in the history of the Visigothic kingdom of Toledo. This analysis on one from two numisma coined by this king given that is the only reference we have of its existence as we have no mention of this character
José Ángel Castillo Lozano
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The role of Paupertas in shaping monastic identity of late antiquity (a case study of Visigothic Spain) [PDF]
The article utilizes Visigothic monastic rules (Regula Isidori, Regula Fructuosi, Regula Communis) to explore the multifaceted nature of paupertas. It argues against reducing paupertas to a single interpretation, as is often done in existing research ...
Mikhail Birkin
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Metaphors of this world in Visigothic monastic texts [PDF]
The article uses Visigothic sources and examines the principal metaphors and images employed in monastic and ascetic literature in order to characterise the world, namely the mundane sea and this age’s pageantry.
Mikhail Birkin
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