1st Edition

Vie chrétienne et culture dans l’Espagne du VIIe au Xe siècles

By Manuel C. Díaz Copyright 1992
304 Pages
by Routledge

In the 7th century the political and economic situation of Visigothic Spain seemed to grow ever worse, yet it was at this time that there was established a Christian culture that lasted up to the 11th century. This culture forms the subject of the present volume and was the product, the author holds, of the survival of classical learning, on the one hand, and, on the other, the needs of a... Read more
Contents: Préface; The Christian origins of the Peninsula as seen in some 7th-century texts; El latín de la liturgia hispánica; Literary aspects of the Visigothic liturgy; Passionnaires, légendiers, et compilations hagiographiques dans le Haut Moyen Age espagnol; Notes for a chronology of the Pasionario Hispanico; La fecha de implantación del Oracional festivo visigótico; Eremitical life in Visigothic Spain; La vie monastique d’après les écrivains wisigothiques (VIIe siècle); Aspectos de la tradición de la ’Regula Isidori’; The Lerins manuscript of the Isidorian Rule: an addition and a partial retraction; Les arts libéraux d’après les écrivains espagnols et insulaires aux VIIe et VIIIe siècles; La circulation des manuscripts dans la Péninsule Iberique du VIIe au XIe siecles; Un document privé de l’Espagne wisigothique sur ardoise; Index.

Biography

Manuel C. Díaz