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

THE SEVENTH-CENTURY KINGDOM 97 arrived, ofVisigothic. One such family was probably based at La Cocosa, not far from Merida, wher ...

98 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN of the religious life of the period is not clear. In the case of Eulalia of Merida, it has been suggeste ...

THE SEVENTH-CENTURY KINGDOM 99 offering to send in return a book describing those of St Eulalia. This must be a reference to the ...

100 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN hierarchy of the city that it offers: that is the archdeacon. Mter the bishop this was the most importa ...

THE SEVENTH-CENTURY KINGDOM 101 in ensuring the continued agricultural prosperity of his province by virtue of his great spiritu ...

102 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN followers by successive kings. They, in turn, are likely to have settled their own supporters and famil ...

THE SEVENTH-CENTURY KINGDOM 103 despatched to the local official in charge of the lands belonging to the royal fisc.^25 Unfortun ...

104 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN seventh century, as the author of the Lives of the Fathers of Merida found nothing strange or untoward ...

THE SEVENTH-CENTURY KINGDOM 105 recitation during mass on the feast day of the saint. Braulio also had his archdeacon, Eugenius, ...

106 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN some of its members were terminated violently by Leovigild, during the course of his campaigns in the n ...

THE SEVENTH-CENTURY KINGDOM 107 rather than in the few towns of these regions, that so much that was to be found of importance f ...

108 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN only practical sanction of that authority, although supernatural ones were increasingly invoked through ...

THE SEVENTH-CENTURY KINGDOM 109 much stronger than it had ever been before. The major ideological rift that had divided the popu ...

110 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN even penetrating as far south as Zaragoza. Both kings Sisebut (611/ 12-620)and Suinthila (621-631) unde ...

THE SEVENTH-CENTURY KINGDOM III more heavily on the kingdom than its practical potential to interfere would have warranted was t ...

112 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN insoluble problems of credibility and in every case child rulers fell victims to aristocratic coups d'e ...

THE SEVENTH-CENTURY KINGDOM 113 For then election did become of crucial importance. An elected king, drawn from the ranks of the ...

114 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN 642, which involved the replacement of the dynasty of Chintila (636- 639) and Tulga (639-642), was foll ...

THE SEVENTH-CENTURY KINGDOM 115 king and those that he held temporarily and in trust by virtue of his office, expounded by VIII ...

116 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN discuss. The first of these appears at the beginning of the acts of III Toledo. No more are known until ...