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Languages : en
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Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia
Author: Hispania in Late Antiquity
Author: Kim BowesPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047407520
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
This collection of essays on late Roman Hispania describes the relationships between the peninsula and the rest of the late antique world. Its contributors – archaeologists, historians, and historians of art – address both the historical evidence and the complex historiography of late antique Hispania.
The Power of Cities
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004399690
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
The Power of Cities is an interdisciplinary, cultural-comparative volume on Iberian urban studies. It is the first attempt to bring together recent research on the transformation of Iberian cities from Late Antiquity to the 18th century combining archaeological and historical sources.
Regna and Gentes
Author: Hans-Werner GoetzPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004125248
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
This book is the first comprehensive and comparative study of the difficult relationship between ethnic identities and political organisation in the post-Roman and early medieval kingdoms. 16 authors (historians, archaeologists and linguists) deal with ten important kingdoms of this period and with its political and legal context.
Writing History in Late Antique Iberia
Author: Purificación Ubric RabanedaPublisher: Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia
ISBN: 9789463729413
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume reflects on the motivations underpinning the writing of history in Late Antique Iberia, emphasising its theoretical and practical aspects and outlining the social, political and ideological implications of the constructions and narrations of the past. The volume includes general topics related to the writing of history, such as the historiographical debates on writing history, the praxis of history writing and the role of central and local powers in the construction of the past, the legitimacy of history, the exaltation of Christian history to the detriment of other religious beliefs, and the perception of time in hagiographical texts. Further points of interest in the volume are the specific studies on the historiographical culture. All these issues are analysed from an innovative perspective, which combines traditional subjects with new historiographical topics, such as the configuration of historical discourse through another type of documentation like councils, hagiography or legislation.
The Iberian Peninsula Between 300 and 850
Author: Javier Martínez JiménezPublisher:
ISBN: 9789089647771
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The first work to address the end of Roman Hispania and the emergence of Medieval Spain from a principally archaeological perspective
Late Antique and Early Medieval Hispania
Author: Pilar Diarte BlascoPublisher: Oxbow Books Limited
ISBN: 9781785709968
Category : Iberian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Examines the transformations of the urban and rural landscapes of the Iberian Peninsula between the disappearance of the Roman Empire and the arrival of Islamic troops (c. AD 400-711).
Leadership, Social Cohesion, and Identity in Late Antique Spain and Gaul (500-700)
Author: Dolores CastroPublisher: Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia
ISBN: 9789463725958
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The replacement of the Roman Empire in the West with emerging kingdoms like Visigothic Spain and Merovingian Gaul resulted in new societies, but without major population displacement. Societies changed because identities shifted and new points of cohesion formed under different leaders and leadership structures. This volume examines two kingdoms in the post-Roman west to understand how this process took shape. Though exhibiting striking continuities with the Roman past, Gaul and Spain emerged as distinctive, but not isolated, political entities that forged different strategies and drew upon different resources to strengthen their unity, shape social ties, and consolidate their political status.
Urban Interactions: Communication and Competition in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Author: Michael J. KellyPublisher: Punctum Books
ISBN: 9781953035059
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
"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."
Writing History in Late Antique Iberia
Author: Purificación Ubric RabanedaPublisher:
ISBN: 9789048544974
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume reflects on the motivations underpinning the writing of history in Late Antique Iberia, emphasising its theoretical and practical aspects and outlining the social, political and ideological implications of the constructions and narrations of the past. The volume includes general topics related to the writing of history, such as the historiographical debates on writing history, the praxis of history writing and the role of central and local powers in the construction of the past, the legitimacy of history, the exaltation of Christian history to the detriment of other religious beliefs, and the perception of time in hagiographical texts. Further points of interest in the volume are the specific studies on the historiographical culture. All these issues are analysed from an innovative perspective, which combines traditional subjects with new historiographical topics, such as the configuration of historical discourse through another type of documentation like councils, hagiography or legislation.