Early Medieval Spain. Unity in Diversity, 400–1000 (2E)

THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW ORDER 17 with the army units under his command. He seems to have had little difficulty in capturing Const ...

18 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN is that the barbarians seized lands for their own use without Roman approval, and that they drew lots am ...

THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW ORDER 19 with the new Roman military dictator, the Master of the Soldiers Constantius (d. 421), who was t ...

20 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN was clearly great, and the increase in their numbers raised them to dominance in the peninsula. After an ...

THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW ORDER 21 The chronicler Hydatius was himself involved in 431 in an embassy to the Master of the Soldiers, ...

22 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN interfere in the affairs of the Spanish provinces other than Tarraconensis, except by some slight diplom ...

THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW ORDER 23 invasion in 456 was to be the Visigothic domination of the peninsula. The Suevic king Rechiarius ...

24 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN he returned to Gaul to pursue affairs there, mainly in the interests of Ricimer. He left those parts of ...

THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW ORDER 25 relations between the Romans and the Visigoths in Spain were to be built is far from clear.^27 B ...

26 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN was superseded, first by a revised version issued by King Leovigild (569-86) in the late sixth century, ...

THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW ORDER 27 Thus the principal line of the legislation of the Visigothic kings partakes rather of the charac ...

28 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN an aping of imperial practice, in the interest of emphasising some of the Roman roots of their authority ...

THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW ORDER 29 impression is reinforced by some of the laws from the Code, such as that relating to the inherit ...

30 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN treatment of Roman statute law was directly in the tradition and following the lines of known praetorian ...

THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW ORDER 31 and Catholics in the Visigothic kingdom seems at this time to have been limited, and as a result ...

The Imposition of Unity Divisions and Defeats THE series of demoralising defeats that they suffered in the years 507- 31 at th ...

THE IMPOSITION OF UNITY 33 adulthood, so the Visigothic nobility elected instead Gesalic, an ille- gitimate son of Alaric II, of ...

34 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN at some point in his reign, and this was probably the starting point for a fantastic medieval legend tha ...

THE IMPOSITION OF UNITY 35 consular dated sixth-century annals.' The passages relating to the Visigothic settlement can have bee ...

36 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN people. The office of Judge' did not survive the entry of the Visigoths into the Roman world, and the co ...