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Enslaved Christians, Jewish owners in Visigothic hagiography, theology and law [PDF]

Estudios de Historia de España, 2023
The Iberian Passio Mantii is a rare case of a late antique martyrdom account in which the protagonist, Mantius, is described as the Christian slave of Jewish owners who persecute him to death for not converting to Judaism.
Kati Ihnat
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Making loca sacra in Visigothic Iberia: The Case of Churches

Religions, 2023
Curiously, we have no previous studies that deal monographically with the question of the sacralisation of spaces in Visigoth Iberia. It is intended in the following pages to fill this historiographical gap by focusing on the particular case of the ...
Pablo Poveda Arias
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The Text of Visigothic Law in Practice [PDF]

, 2020
This essay is a case study in the textual transmission of the Visigothic law code or Book of Judgements (Liber Iudiciorum). Rather than relying solely on manuscript copies, I draw on charters as sources for the text, and by tracking the citation of treason law across the corpus of documentation from early medieval Asturias-León and Navarra, I identify ...
Wood, Jamie
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Documented legal acts under Visigothic law

Estudios de Deusto, 2014
In the present article we intend to highlight the importance that the use of writing in the most varied legal texts had in the Visigothic Law. With this purpose we focus mainly on two legal texts of the Visigothic times. Firstly on the Code of Eurico, in
Olga Marlasca Martínez
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"The Perfidy of the Jews": Visigothic Law and the Catholic Public Sphere

Anthos, 2013
In this essay, I will analyze the Visigothic law code, the Forum judicum, as revised by King Recceswinth in 654 CE and King Erwig in 681 CE, in order to examine Visigothic society as envisioned by its lawmakers. In particular, I will focus on the role of Jews in this social framework.
Jonathan Phillips
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Unity from disunity: law, rhetoric and power in the Visigothic kingdom

European 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, Sam Koon
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The Arabic legal documents of Toledo: the merging of legal cultures in a society in transition

Hispania Sacra
The Arabic documents from Toledo mirror a mosaic of laws and legal customs, together with the merging of laws and legal systems. Indeed, Christians, Muslims, and Jews of Toledo continued writing their legal documents in Arabic, following the pattern of ...
Rocío Daga Portillo
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Liturgical Framing of Trials in 10th to 11th Century Catalonia

Religions, 2022
This paper focuses on the question of how place, time, ritual, and liturgy were interconnected before, during, and after trials in the tenth and eleventh centuries in what is today Catalonia. It does so by highlighting cases that show that Visigothic law
Cornel-Peter Rodenbusch
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José Orlandis (1918-2010): biographie et historiographie / José Orlandis (1918-2010): Biography and Historiography [PDF]

Studia et Documenta, 2019
The historian José Orlandis (1918-2010) joined Opus Dei in 1939 and was ordained a priest ten years later. He was involved in the Spanish Civil War and he lived in Rome during the Second World War, where he was able to assist with the recognition of Opus
Martin Aurell
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THE LOCUS IN THE CONTEXT OF LATE ANTIQUE SPAIN

Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology, 2020
At a conference some years ago, I briefly examined the relationship between local power and wine production in Visigothic Spain. On that occasion, I mentioned the transformed legal nature of the locus, a topic I now wish to explore further, in the same ...
Adriaan De Man
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