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

A CHURCH TRIUMPHANT^77 Julian (680-690) is probably the most striking and most versatile of the seventh-century bishops of Toled ...

78 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN commentators.^43 It has been suspected that he deliberately induced the appearance of fatal illness in t ...

A CHURCH TRIUMPHANT 79 monastery?) and denied communion until upon his deathbed.^45 This conspiracy has been linked with the exi ...

80 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN Emperor Justinian I's attempts to impose unacceptable theological views on the Mrican Church in those de ...

A CHURCH TRIUMPHANT 81 seventh century. 50 One of Aemilian's own hermitages developed into an important monastic community in th ...

82 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN Martin of Tours. At any rate, Martin of Braga did have a crucial role to play in helping shape the Churc ...

A CHURCH TRIUMPHANT 83 has heen recognised. Certainly in Martin and his successors at Dumio there existed a line of bishops whos ...

84 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN Some of the major urban monasteries, such as Agali at Toledo and Cauliana at Merida, are known from lite ...

A CHURCH TRIUMPHANT 85 rule: the abbot or prior had to change the allocation of the monks' beds twice every week and 'shall care ...

86 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN and tenth centuries, to the existence of earlier monasteries or churches on sites such as Montserrat, ma ...

The Seventh-Century Kingdom Local Society in Town and Countryside IT would be interesting to know something of the social and ...

88 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN The wealth of information concerning town life and the activities of bishops within their sees given in ...

THE SEVENTH-CENTURY KINGDOM 89 city was also enriched by the restoration of some of its earlier secular buildings. The amphithea ...

90 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN as well as to the influence of contemporary Byzantium. As with the mosaic workshops, there may have been ...

THE SEVENTH-CENTURY KINGDOM 91 the two ranks of the episcopate (the metropolitans - later called archbishops - and the ordinary ...

92 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN succession to a bishopric, although uncanonical, was not uncommon in the western Church at this period. ...

THE SEVENTH-CENTURY KINGDOM 93 Fidelis himself used some of his resources for rebuilding the epis- copal palace, which collapsed ...

94 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN standing was also important. This depended principally on the effec- tiveness, in local eyes at least, o ...

THE SEVENTH-CENTURY KINGDOM 95 we find the principals of some of the subsidiary cults, such as Saints Cyprian and Laurence, enga ...

96 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN devotion. The relationship was one of patron and client in the tradi- tional Roman manner. The bishop so ...