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Framing Power in Visigothic Society: Discourses, Devices, and Artifacts book cover

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Framing Power in Visigothic Society Discourses, Devices, and Artifacts

Edited By Eleonora Dell' Elicine, Céline Martin Copyright 2020
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction, Eleonora Dell' Elicine, Céline 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 sacralisation in the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo, Eleonora Dell' Elicine, Ervig and capital penalties: the way of exile, Céline 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, List of Illustrations, Index.

Biography

Eleonora Dell’ Elicine is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at Universidad de General Sarmiento (Argentina) since 2011. Her research field is the political, intellectual, and social history of Europe in the Early Middle Ages, with particular interest in the Visigothic Kingdom in the seventh century. She focuses on the semiotic ways in which the Visigothic Church managed to communicate authority - specially liturgy, chronicles, and miracles. Since 2014, she has been working on the problem of superstition and idolatrous practices.
Céline Martin is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Bordeaux-Montaigne (France) and a member of Ausonius (UMR 5607, CNRS). She holds a PhD in Medieval History (2000) from the EHESS (Paris). Prior to arriving at Bordeaux, she was Senior Lecturer at the University of Lille-3 (2001-2007). As a specialist in 6-7th century Spain, her research deals mostly with political theory and practice, and particularly focuses on the normative corpus of Visigothic leges and concilia.

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