Title Framing Power in Visigothic Society Discourses, Devices, and Artifacts / edited by Celine Martin and Eleonora Dell'Elicine

Published Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020 Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000 2020

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Description 1 online resource (223 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Late antique and early medieval Iberia ; 7 Late antique and early medieval Iberia ; 7. Book collections on Project MUSE Contents Texts, discourses, and devices : reading Visigothic society today / Eleonora Dell'Elicine and Celine Martin -- Presence of Augustine of Hippo in Isidore of Seville : some provisional remarks / Jacques Elfassi -- The bishop and the word : Isidore of Seville and the production of meaning / Dolores Castro -- Unearthing peasant societies : historiography and recent contributions in the archaeology of the rural world during Visigothic times / Carlos Tejerizo -- Excolentes sacra fontium vel arborum : pagan cults, kinship, and regimes of sacralization in the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo / Eleonora Dell' Elicine -- Ervig and capital penalties : the way of exile / Celine Martin -- 'Put all your trust in Ansemundus' : a look at distrust in Visigothic-Byzantine diplomatic relations / Margarita Vallejo -- Visigothic currency : recent developments and data for its study / Ruth Pliego Summary This volume examines how power was framed in Visigothic society and how a diverse population with a complex and often conflicting cultural inheritance was thereby held together as a single kingdom. Indeed, through this dynamic process a new, early medieval society emerged. Understanding this transformation is no simple matter, as it involved the deployment of an array of political and cultural resources: the production of knowledge, the appropriation of Patristic literature, controlling and administering rural populations, reconceptualizing the sacred, capital punishment and exile, controlling the manufacture of currency, and defining Visigothic society in relation to other polities such as the neighbouring Byzantine state. In order to achieve an analysis of these different phenomena, this volume brings together researchers from a variety of disciplines. This interdisciplinary approach therefore expands the available sources and reformulates topics of traditional scholarship in order to engage with a renewal of Visigothic Studies and reformulate the paradigm of study itself. As a result, this volume rethinks frameworks of power in the Peninsula along not only historical and archaeological but also anthropological terms, presenting the reader with a new understanding of Iberian society as a whole Notes Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Description based on print version record Subject Visigoths -- Spain. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General. Visigoths Spain Form Electronic book Author Dell'Elicine, Eleonora, editor Martin, Celine, editor Project Muse, distributor. ISBN 9789048543595 9048543592

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