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

THE IMPOSITION OF UNITY 37 royal administration. No system existed to replace the permanent military establishment of the late R ...

38 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN One law of Theudis has survived, relating to voluntary gifts to judges.^13 The king was assassinated in ...

THE IMPOSITION OF UNITY 39 real one. Certainly the Visigoths had twice been prevented from invading the African provinces in the ...

40 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN 592-613, when she was viciously executed. It is quite likely that many of the difficulties the Visigothi ...

THE IMPOSITION OF UNITY 41 before 589 there are no references to named Arian bishops at all, with the exception of Sunna of Meri ...

42 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN in the Chronicle of John of Biclar, the most substantial work of its kind produced in Visigothic Spain. ...

THE IMPOSITION OF UNITY 43 refers to the existence of other unspecified works by John, which, however, he had not read and are n ...

44 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN recorded, and also the translation of some relics of Martin from Tours to the Suevic capital of Braga. T ...

THE IMPOSITION OF UNITY 45 Cantabria' were massacred. In 575 the 'Agregensian mountains', on the frontiers of Galicia, where the ...

46 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN and Ingundis named their only child Athanagild. However, the effects of this may not have been what Leov ...

THE IMPOSITION OF UNITY 47 Constantinople in the opening year or two of the decade. Leander had been in Constantinople when Greg ...

48 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN peaceful co-existence, Leovigild finally reacted to crush the ephem- eral kingdom of his son in 582, the ...

THE IMPOSITION OF UNITY 49 The Suevic king Miro, who had died in 583 outside Seville, was suc- ceeded by his son Eboric. The new ...

50 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN this be so, the distinctive type of Visigothic coin for the next half- century, with the facing bust of ...

THE IMPOSITION OF UNITY 51 of these measures must have considerably increased the potential popularity of Arianism, for few of t ...

52 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN of royal authority that existed in the Visigothic kingdom, and it is important to bear in mind that the ...

THE IMPOSITION OF UNITY 53 the kingdom that was based on consent rather than force. Thus it was imperative that the conflicts in ...

54 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN sees.^46 Reccared, Leovigild's son and successor was converted to Catholicism under the guidance of Bish ...

THE IMPOSITION OF UNITY 55 in Mauretania, where ultimately he came to a violent death.^48 Unfor- tunately we know nothing about ...

56 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN requirement of reordination. The most fascinating canon is the second one, which lays down regulations c ...