1st Edition
Stones, Trees and Springs in the Ritual Landscape of Late Antique Gaul and Hispania
By Rocío Suárez Vallejo
Copyright 2026
210 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
210 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book explores how late antique condemnations of rituals at stones, trees and springs reveal deliberate ecclesiastical strategies designed to control devotion, redefine sacred landscapes and consolidate episcopal control across the rural territories of post-Roman Gaul and Hispania.
By analysing sermons, conciliar canons, penitentials, hagiography and civil legislation, the book shows how... Read more
Introduction; 1. Petrae, Arbores et Fontes Through the Ages; 2. Vota in Nature in 6th-7th Century Gaul and Hispania; 3. Stones, Trees and Springs: Lived Ancient Religion; 4. The Pagan Threat in 8th-Century Gaul; 5. Pagani, Gentiles and Rustici: A Terminological Dilemma; Concluding Remarks; Annex of Penitentials.
Biography
Rocío Suárez Vallejo is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Málaga (Spain), specialising in religious landscapes and rural ritual practices in the Late Antique West and author of Idola fregit? Revisiting Iconoclasm on Leodegar’s tombstone, Metaphorical landscapes in rural Hispania and La larga sombra del paganismo en la Hispania visigoda.
