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

THE IMPOSITION OF UNITY 57 mutilated and then murdered in 603, thus ending the dynasty of Leovigild. In 588, another plot was un ...

A Church Triumphant THE intellectual vigour of the Spanish Church in the late sixth and seventh centuries must owe much to the ...

A CHURCH TRIUMPHANT 59 engage in open debate with the Arian bishops in the presence of King Thrasamund (498-523), and he wrote a ...

60 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN Gaul. The greatest debt owed in this direction was to the sermon collections of Caesar ius of ArIes (502 ...

A CHURCH TRIUMPHANT 61 his brothers lived a life of self-imposed ascetic discipline in their family household, along the lines o ...

62 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN a number of works attributed to and for a long time accepted as being by him, whose authenticity has now ...

A CHURCH TRIUMPHANT 63 Origines (Etymologies or Origins), in the course of which, in twenty books, he attempted to offer a consp ...

64 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN in Visigothic Spain after Isidore and was developed to its greatest extent by Bishop Ildefonsus of Toled ...

A CHURCH TRIUMPHANT 65 to read Braulio's letter, and whe!l he returned from his summons to the king it had mysteriously disappea ...

66 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN and pupil Braulio of Zaragoza, and passed thence to a series of out- standing bishops of Toledo. But bef ...

A CHURCH TRIUMPHANT 67 Sisebut's other work in verse is a hymn, and there is also a corpus of prose of considerable interest. Th ...

68 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN exchange of letters between himself and his principal opponent in the peninsula, the Byzantine Patrician ...

A CHURCH TRIUMPHANT 69 those of Eugenius II, Ildefonsus and Julian, the great seventh-century bishops of Toledo, the existence o ...

70 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN John's request, he began preparations for writing his Life of Saint Aemilian, but he stopped and did not ...

A CHURCH TRIUMPHANT 71 By this same period Toledo had secured for itself a monopoly on the right to perform the ecclesiastical c ...

72 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN support for the kings. However, the status of the city as royal resid- ence was not of itself enough. Th ...

A CHURCH TRIUMPHANT 73 of King Chindasuinth who, for this and his despatch of Taio to Rome, ranks second only to Sisebut as a ro ...

74 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN substantial creed. The early years of Reccesuinth's reign (649-672) were particularly difficult ones, an ...

A CHURCH TRIUMPHANT 75 us no written works, nor did he receive an entry in the continuations of On Famous Men. It is conceivable ...

76 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN latter composed a number of masses, sermons and hymns. As some of the masses in the surviving Visigothic ...