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Etnicidad vs. Aculturación : Las Necrópolis Castellanas de Los Siglos V-VI D. C. y el Asentamiento Visigodo en la Península Ibérica. una Mirada Desde la Meseta Sur
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ISBN: 1789690803 Year: 2018 Publisher: Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd,

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A study of the political and archaeological controversies surrounding the Castilian Necropoleis of the V-VI Centuries AD and the Visigoth Settlement in the Iberian Peninsula. The author attempts to deconstruct the various controversies and presents fresh analysis based on the archaeological data and literary evidence.


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Minting, state, and economy in the Visigothic kingdom : from settlement in Aquitane through the first decade of the Muslim conquest of Spain
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ISBN: 9789462981645 9789048531301 9048531306 Year: 2020 Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,

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This study of the Visigothic kingdom monetary system in southern Gaul and Hispania from the fifth century through the Muslim invasion of Spain fills a major gap in the scholarship of late antiquity. Examining all aspects of the making of currency, it sets minting in relation to questions of state - monarchical power, administration and apparatus, motives for money production - and economy. In the context of the later Roman Empire and its successor states in the west, the minting and currency of the Visigoths reveal shared patterns as well as originality. The analysis brings both economic life and the needs of the state into sharper focus, with significant implications for the study of an essential element in daily life and government. This study combines an appreciation for the surprising level of sophistication in the Visigothic minting system with an accessible approach to a subject which can seem complex and abstruse.

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Argent (monnaie) --- Wisigoths --- Money --- Visigoths --- History. --- Espagne --- Spain --- History


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The Visigothic Kingdom : the negotiation of power in post-Roman Iberia
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ISBN: 9789463720632 Year: 2020 Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,

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How did the breakdown of Roman rule in the Iberian Peninsula eventually result in the formation of a Visigothic kingdom with authority centralised in Toledo? This collection of essays challenges the view that local powers were straightforwardly subjugated to the expanding central power of the monarchy. Rather than interpret countervailing events as mere ‘delays’ in this inevitable process, the contributors to this book interrogate where these events came from, which causes can be uncovered and how much influence individual actors had in this process. What emerges is a story of contested interests seeking cooperation through institutions and social practices that were flexible enough to stabilise a system that was hierarchical yet mutually beneficial for multiple social groups. By examining the Visigothic settlement, the interplay between central and local power, the use of ethnic identity, projections of authority, and the role of the Church, this book articulates a model for understanding the formation of a large and important early medieval kingdom. -- Back cover


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La fin de l'Empire romain d'Occident : Rome et les Wisigoths de 382 à 531
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ISSN: 21089256 ISBN: 9782753542952 2753542953 Year: 2015 Publisher: Rennes : Presses universitaires de Rennes,

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En étudiant les traditions diplomatiques de Rome avec ses voisins et sa politique envers les royaumes clients barbares jusqu'au IVe siècle, puis avec les chefs de ces peuples barbares qui demandent à s'intégrer, avec leurs soldats, dans la hiérarchie de l'armée romaine, cet ouvrage met en lumière une autre lecture des événements politiques et militaires du Ve siècle dans l'Occident romain, longtemps résumés par les visions catastrophistes de la chute de l'Empire romain et des grandes invasions. L'ouvrage s'intéresse tout particulièrement au devenir des Goths et parmi eux, à ceux qui vont devenir les Wisigoths du "royaume wisigothique de Toulouse puis de Tolède". L'évolution des relations des Wisigoths d'Alaric, le responsable du fameux sac de Rome en 410, et de ses successeurs avec le pouvoir romain est analysée tout au long d'une histoire de l'Italie, de la Gaule et de l'Espagne qui voit se succéder usurpations et rivalités politiques des aristocraties romaines, conquête de l'Afrique par les Vandales et volonté de contrôle de l'Empire d'Orient, intégration des contingents fédérés dans le dispositif militaire et capacité des noblesses barbares à mettre en place un nouvel ordre social et politique qui amorce, en 477, l'avènement des royaumes romano-barbares. Comment les élites romaines ont-elles affronté ces transformations radicales du monde romain tardif ? Comment les Barbares et Constantinople ont-ils conjointement mis en place le nouvel ordre du monde en Occident ? Cet ouvrage tente de répondre à ces questions en proposant une relecture politique du passage de l'Antiquité au Moyen Âge


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Gallo-Romains, Wisigoths et Francs en Aquitaine, Septimanie et Espagne : actes des VIIe journées internationales d'archéologie mérovingienne, Toulouse, 1985
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ISBN: 2950559506 9782950559500 Year: 1991 Publisher: Rouen : Association française d'Archéologie mérovingienne,

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La géographie du pouvoir dans l’espace visigothique
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ISBN: 2859398155 9782859398156 2757422448 Year: 2019 Publisher: Villeneuve d'Ascq : Presses universitaires du Septentrion,

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Le royaume de Tolède, l’un des grands royaumes chrétiens formés après la fin de l’Empire romain d’Occident, naît dans un cadre profondément romanisé, la Péninsule ibérique et la Narbonnaise. En s’implantant en Hispanie à la chute du royaume de Toulouse, l’élite visigothique devait affirmer sa domination politique sur un territoire nouveau. Sa maîtrise de l’espace s’appuya largement sur les structures préexistantes, qu’elle revitalisa, sur la création d’agents territoriaux spécifiques et sur le recours à la collaboration des puissants laïcs et des évêques. La désagrégation politique souvent décrite pour cette période paraît largement infondée, à l’exception du nord-est du royaume, plusieurs fois soulevé par des troubles séparatistes. De fait, les séditions provenaient le plus souvent du centre lui-même, de l’entourage royal. C’est aussi autour du centre que toute la construction politique visigothique était organisée, à la fois matériellement (on observe un important mouvement de centralisation au milieu du viie siècle) et symboliquement, avec la montée progressive de Tolède, véritable « petite Rome ». À l’abri de frontières conçues comme hermétiques, le royaume s’identifiait à un sanctuaire, seul lieu où, sous la responsabilité de leur roi, tous les sujets hispanogothiques pouvaient parvenir au salut dans ce monde et dans l’autre. Ainsi, sans sacrifier son efficacité au niveau administratif, la construction politique visigothique s’est aussi présentée comme un instrument de rédemption ici-bas, plusieurs décennies avant l’Empire carolingien.


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Urban interactions : communication and competition in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages
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Year: 2020 Publisher: Brooklyn, NY punctum books

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This volume is dedicated to eliciting the interactions between localities across late antique and early medieval Europe and the wider Mediterranean. Significant research has been done in recent years to explore how late “Roman” and post-“Roman” cities, towns and other localities communicated vis-à-vis larger structural phenomena, such as provinces, empires, kingdoms, institutions and so on. This research has contributed considerably to our understanding of the place of the city in its context, but tends to portray the city as a necessarily subordinate conduit within larger structures, rather than an entity in itself, or as a hermeneutical object of enquiry. Consequently, not enough research has been committed to examining how local people and communities thought about, engaged with, and struggled against nearby or distant urban neighbors.Urban Interactions addresses this lacuna in urban history by presenting articles that apply a diverse spectrum of approaches, from archaeological investigation to critical analyses of historiographical and historical biases and developmental consideration of antagonisms between ecclesiastical centers. Through these avenues of investigation, this volume elucidates the relationship between the urban centers and their immediate hinterlands and neighboring cities with which they might vie or collaborate. This entanglement and competition, whether subterraneous or explicit across overarching political, religious or other macro categories, is evaluated through a broad geographical range of late “Roman” provinces and post-“Roman” states to maintain an expansive perspective of developmental trends within and about the city.


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Minting, state, and economy in the Visigothic kingdom : from settlement in Aquitane through the first decade of the Muslim conquest of Spain
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ISBN: 9048531306 9462981647 Year: 2020 Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,

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This study of the Visigothic kingdom monetary system in southern Gaul and Hispania from the fifth century through the Muslim invasion of Spain fills a major gap in the scholarship of late antiquity. Examining all aspects of the making of currency, it sets minting in relation to questions of state - monarchical power, administration and apparatus, motives for money production - and economy. In the context of the later Roman Empire and its successor states in the west, the minting and currency of the Visigoths reveal shared patterns as well as originality. The analysis brings both economic life and the needs of the state into sharper focus, with significant implications for the study of an essential element in daily life and government. This study combines an appreciation for the surprising level of sophistication in the Visigothic minting system with an accessible approach to a subject which can seem complex and abstruse.


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Tres usurpadores godos : tres estudios sobre la tirania en el reino visigodo de Toledo
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ISBN: 1789699606 9781789699609 1789699592 9781789699593 Year: 2021 Publisher: Oxford : Archaeopress,

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This book presents a study of three famous usurpations of the Visigothic period: the uprising of Prince Hermenegild (579-585); the rebellion of Duke Argimundo at the beginning of the reign of Recaredo; and Duke Theudemirus and the role he played in the transmission of power between Visigoths and Arabs after the fall of the kingdom of Toledo.


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Rome and Byzantium in the Visigothic Kingdom : beyond Imitatio Imperii
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ISBN: 9048544653 Year: 2023 Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,

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This volume interrogates the assumption that Visigothic practices and institutions were mere imitations of the Byzantine empire. Contributors rethink these practices not as uncritical and derivative adoptions of Byzantine customs, but as dynamic processes in dialogue with not only the Byzantine empire but also with the contemporary Iberian context, as well as the Roman past. The goal of the volume is to approach Visigothic customs not as an uncritical adoption and imitatio of contemporary Roman models (an 'acculturation' model), but as unique interpretations of a common pool of symbols, practices, and institutions that formed the legacy of Rome. The contributors argue that it is necessary to reconsider the idea of imitatio imperii as a process that involved specific actors taking strategic decisions in historically contingent circumstances.

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