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2018
This is a draft. My contract with Brepols does not permit me to upload the published version. It is one of eleven invited papers by international specialists on the theme "Le gouvernement des cités dans l'Antiquité Tardive". You may either purchase the volume or consult it in a library.
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The Hispano-Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo (of the sixth and seventh centuries) is considered by historians to have been a Romano-barbarian monarchy that, more or less, preserved the political and institutional elements of the former Roman imperial polity. However, scholars should remember that certain theoretical conceptions – such as that which placed the rex gothorum as the true primus super pares within the sociopolitical environment of the Hispano-Visigothic kingdom – are not consistently reflective of the practical attitudes described in our manuscripts and reveal an intense dispute between segments of the aristocracy and the crown. In this essay, I will analyze how this dichotomy serves as a starting point for illustrating how Hispano-Visigothic institutions existed de facto, how their action was limited by the difficult coexistence between various aristocratic groups, and how this friction facilitated the weakness of Hispano- Visigothic royal power.
El tiempo de los “Bárbaros.” Pervivencia y transformación en Gallia e Hispania (ss V-VI d.C). (Zona Arqueológica 11.)
The Urban Landscape in Hispania in the Fifth Century2010 •
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This article explores the complex – and often obscure – relationship between the Christian church and the Visigothic state, drawing evidence from the sixth-century Parochiale Suevum, the numismatic remains, and a handful of legal and canonical sources. It argues that the Visigothic Kingdom’s administrative structures were highly decentralized across sixth and seventh century Hispania. As a result, kings were heavily reliant on the local elite class of cities in their kingdom for the maintenance of relations at the local level. These potentes thus took an active role in judicial and fiscal procedures on behalf of the Visigothic kings from the later sixth century onward. And as some of the most influential members of the local elite class, bishops and other local representatives of the Christian church eventually came to take a crucial role in such royal prerogatives as the collection of tax/tribute and the all-important minting of official coinage. Their participation in these activities may have been somewhat informal at first, and dependent on the individual’s status as a member of the local elite class. But the evidence discussed here shows that participation by the clergy in the collection of tribute and the conveyance of that tribute – in kind or in coin – to the royal treasury became a regular process and, more than likely, a central link in the maintenance of the Visigothic king’s power and influence at the local level. Este artículo explora la compleja y a veces poco clara relación entre la Iglesia Cristiana y el Estado Visigodo, a partir del estudio del Parochiale Suevum del siglo sexto, las evidencias numismáticas y diversas fuentes legales y canónigas. Defiende que la estructura administrativa del Reino Visigodo en Hispania durante los siglos sexto y séptimo era altamente descentralizada. Como resultado, los reyes dependían enormemente de las élites urbanas locales para el mantenimiento de sus influencia a nivel local. Estos potentes tuvieron una función activa en ámbitos judicial y fiscal en representación de los reyes visigodos desde finales del siglo sexto en adelante. Como parte de la élite local más influyente, los obispos y otros representantes de la Iglesia Cristiana jugaron ocasionalmente un papel crucial asumiendo prerrogativas reales como la colecta de impuestos y tributos así como la acuñación de moneda oficial. Puede que la participación fuera en un primer momento informal y que ésta dependiera del estatus personal dentro de la élite local. Pero la evidencia aquí defendida muestra que la participación del clero en la colecta de tributos y la transferencia de los mismos al tesoro real – tanto en especie como en moneda – llegó a ser un proceso habitual y más que presumiblemente, un vínculo esencial entre el mantenimiento del poder del rey visigodo y su influencia a nivel local.
Ph.D. Thesis
Networks and Neighbours
Ainoa Castro Correa, Towards a Review of the "Visigothic Symptoms": Formal Writing in Visigothic Hispania, Visigothic Symposia 4 (2020): 64-84In a set of essays (Visigothic Symposium 4) intended to present a review of literary production in Visigothic Hispania, from the perspective of historical contextualization, it is of course fundamental to be able to date the sources we have with some certainty. As is usual, to trace the outlines of this basic corpus we begin from two premises: on the one hand, there is the surviving production, which permits a direct approach to the subject treated in the source and to its context; on the other, there is what has not survived but which, since it is mentioned in other works or its subject is a constant of the period in question, we must assume to have existed. By addressing both cases together, we should be able to begin to understand what was produced in the peninsula, who produced it, and to which specific interests it responded – the point of departure that makes it possible to carry out a study of cultural contextualization. What is missing will be as revealing as what is available or what we can suppose once was, reflecting the interests of elites and institutions both secular and ecclesiastical who, after all, guided the production. Therefore, in this essay, after some brief notes on what could have been in this vast set of literary documents, preserved or lost, I focus on a survey of the criteria that have traditionally been used to identify codices produced in Hispanic centers. That is to say, I propose here a review of the so-called “Visigothic symptoms,” paleographic aspects that have served to categorize certain codices copied in book hand, Uncial, and Half-uncial scripts as Hispanic production in centers within the Visigothic kingdom.
PÉREZ GARCIA, Víctor Lluís (2012): “Late Roman and Visigothic military fortifications in Conventus Tarraconensis (Hispania): The organization of border defence”, Aquila Legionis. Cuadernos de estudios sobre el Ejército Romano 15, Universidad de Murcia, pp. 165-202 (ISSN 1578-1578)
(2012) Late Roman and Visigothic military fortifications in Conventus Tarraconensis (Hispania): The organization of border defence2012 •
- ABSTRACT : From the analysis of archaeological remains, we propose the existence of a fortified complex in the Eastern Pyrenees in Late Antiquity (4th-6th centuries), composed of a double defensive line of military small forts (castra and castella), watchtowers (turres) and small walled towns (civitates). Its location reveals the importance of the strategic control of the main regional roads (Via Augusta-Via Domitia and Strata Ceretana) through the mountain passes, common points of entry to Hispania of invasions and migrations. We also analyze the limes or fortified defensive system similarly organized in the Visigoth period (6th century) in front of the Byzantine province Cartaginiensis Spartarie. .................................................................................................................................................................................................... - RESUMEN : A partir del análisis de los restos arqueológicos, se propone la existencia de un sistema fortificado complejo en los Pirineos Orientales en época tardoantigua (siglos IV-VII), compuesto por una doble línea defensiva de pequeños fortines militares (castra y castella), torres de vigilancia (turres) y pequeñas ciudades amuralladas (civitates). Su localización muestra como se priorizó el control estratégico de las principales vías de comunicación de la región (Via Augusta-Via Domitia y Strata Ceretana) a través de los pasos de montaña, puntos frecuentes de entrada a Hispania de invasiones y migraciones. También se analiza el limes o sistema defensivo fortificado que se organizó de forma similar en época visigoda (siglo VI) enfrente de la provincia bizantina Cartaginiensis Spartarie.
Visigothic Symposia
Rebecca Devlin, Introduction to Visigothic Symposium 3, 2018-2020: Communication and Circulation, Visigothic Symposia 3 (2020), pp. i-xvLoading Preview
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José Antonio Jara Fuente y Juan Francisco Ruiz López (coords.), Cuenca, su historia y sus tierras.
Mártires , obispos y eremitas . Historia y arqueología de la provincia de Cuenca en época visigoda ( siglos VI - VIII ).2023 •
Antiquity 89 347, 1240–1242
Antonio Blanco-González: Review of Cruz Berrocal, M.; García Sanjuán, L. and Gilman, A. (eds.) (2013): The Prehistory of Iberia: Debating Early Social Stratification and the State. New York. Routledge2015 •
G.P. Brogiolo, N. Gauthier & N. Christie (eds.), Towns and their territories between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, Leiden-Boston-Köln 2000, pp. 3-35
City and Territory in Hispania in Late AntiquityEarly Medieval Europe
The local articulation of central power in the north of the Iberian Peninsula (500-1000)2005 •
Community and Identity at the Edges of the Classical World | 978-1-119-63071-5
Machuca, F. (2021): “There are always two sides to every story”: Roman rule, cultural continuities and ethnic identity in southern HispaniaP. Delogu e S. Gasparri (eds.), Le trasformazioni del V secolo. L’Italia, i barbari e l’Occidente romano (Atti del Seminario di Poggibonsi, 18-20 ottobre 2007). Turnhout, 2010. pp. 183-219
Barbarians in 5th Century Hispania2020 •
Collectanea Philologica XXV
The Roman Conquest of Hispania Citerior. Strategies and Archaeological evidence in the north-eastern Peninsular Area. (II-I BCE): The examples of Puig Castellar of Biosca and Can Tacó (Catalonia, Spain).2022 •
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