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

THE SEVENTH-CENTURY KINGDOM 117 council of the Visigothic kingdom, that of XVIII Toledo held c. 702, according to a reference in ...

118 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN in the 630s and treated them as being symptomatic of the condition of the kingdom in the 690s or 700s. ...

THE SEVENTH-CENTURY KINGDOM 119 to die of natural causes, both may have been challenged by usurpers. One of these was almost cer ...

120 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN force. But Sisenand, the king under whose authority the council was being held and at whose protection ...

THE SEVENTH-CENTURY KINGDOM 121 excommunication of the canons was not employed. Why not? This acquiescence by the Visigothic Chu ...

122 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN has already been outlined in a previous chapter. Mter the issue of Leovigild's revision of the Code of ...

THE SEVENTH-CENTURY KINGDOM 123 existed under the jurisdiction of two independent systems of law then the effect of this regulat ...

124 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN The codifications of Leovigild, Reccesuinth and Ervig represented important stages in the functioning o ...

THE SEVENTH-CENTURY KINGDOM 125 by the king by virtue of his office in trust for the people and that which he owned as his perso ...

126 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN The most vivid manifestation of the feelings that swept over the clerical establishment on the death of ...

THE SEVENTH-CENTURY KINGDOM 127 significance as terms implying 'people' and 'homeland' is important. The lack of qualification i ...

128 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN and while many of the basic difficulties of maintaining unified and centralised rule in the peninsula r ...

THE SEVENTH-CENTURY KINGDOM 129 Just as the scope of this legislation grew during the period of the kingdom, so too did its scal ...

130 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN forbidden from holding public offices. The aim of these rulings, as with the earlier ones of Alaric II, ...

THE SEVENTH-CENTURY KINGDOM 131 not to allow anyone who was not a Catholic to dwell in his realm. VIII Toledo of 653, held under ...

132 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN prohibited, the performance of Jewish marriage ceremonies was for- bidden, as was the rite of circumcis ...

THE SEVENTH-CENTURY KINGDOM 133 church on various occasions. The penalties to be inflicted for the infringement of these regulat ...

134 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN the amount formerly paid by the converts. So, for the first time, a financial incentive to conversion w ...

THE SEVENTH-CENTURY KINGDOM 135 then, we seem to be dealing with an unequivocal royal initiative that was not the result of eccl ...

136 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN wide-ranging and savage anti:Jewish legislation were Reccesuinth and Ervig, who were most dependent on ...