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1038: comienws de /a Reconquista (Madrid, 1956), and is in urgent need of replacement.
It has been supplemented by volume VII pt. I, C. Sanchez-Albornoz, EI Reino astur-leones,
722-1037 (Madrid, 1980), which, however has no footnotes, and for bibliography merely
offers a list of some of its author's other works! Rather smaller in compass is the series
Histmia de Espmia edited by M. Tunon de Lara. Its volume II is J J. Sayas Abengochea
and L.A. Garcia Moreno, Romanismo y Germanismo: el despertar de los pueblos hispanicos
(siglos N-X) (Barcelona, 1982), and volume III is R. Arie, Espmia musulmana (siglos VIII-
XV) (Barcelona, 1982), which covers the whole period of Muslim presence in the penin-
sula. Yet another Histmia de Espmia series is that published by the Editorial Gredos in
Madrid. It has a volume (number 3 in the series) on Roman Spain in the form of A.
Montenegro, J.M. Blazquez Martinez and J.M. Solana Sainz, Espana romana (Madrid,
1986), and for the Visigothic period its volume 4 isJ. Orlandis, Epoca visigoda (409-711)
(Madrid, 1987). It is worth noting, however, that this latter is merely a reprint of a
general history of the Visigothic period published by the author in 1977 with no signifi-
cant changes. For more up-ta-date treatment of the subjects by Orlandis see the section
below (B2(b) ). The period following the Arab conquest is treated, perhaps rather too
briefly, in V.A. Alvarez Palanzuela and L. Suarez Fernandez, La Espmia musulmana y los
inicios de los reinos cristianos (711-1157) (Madrid, 1991). A multi-volume history of the
church in Spain has also been published, entitled Histmia de /a Iglesia en Espmia and
under the general editorship of R. Garcia-Villoslada. The first volume, by M. Sotomayor
and T. Gonzalez, covers the Roman and Visigothic periods, with rather more interesting
things to say on the former than on the latter, and the second volume, written in two
parts by a variety of authors led by J. Fernandez Conde, covers the whole of the eighth
to fourteenth centuries. For a shorter synthesis of the history of Spain in the Middle
Ages, the classic treatment is that of L.G. de Valdeavellano, Histmia de Espmia, pt I (2
vols Madrid, 1968) which, however, is starting to show its age. Shorter but better is L.
Vones, Geschichte der Iberischen Halbinsel im Millelalter, 711-1480 (Sigmaringen, 1993).
2 POLITICAL AND LEGAL HISTORY(a) Latn' Roman Emf)ire and Fifth Cent",)"
For the text of Orosius the standard edition is C. Zangemeister (ed.), P. Orosius, Histmiarum
advn"Sum Paganos Libri VII (Hildesheim, 1967). The best edition of Hydatius is now that
by R. Burgess, described above (A2(a) ), but there is also A. Tranoy, Hydace, Cronique (2
vols Paris, 1974). The best edition of Zosimus is that ofF. Paschoud, Znsime, Histoin: Nouvel1c
(5 vols Paris, 1971-86). The fragmentary 'Chronicle of Zaragoza' is edited by T. Mommsen
in M.G.H. A.A., vol. XI (Berlin, 1894), pp. 222-3. For the history of Late Roman Spain
the best guide is J. Arce, El ,i/timo s!glo de la E:"spmia romana: 284- 409 (Madrid, 1982);
see also the saIne author's collection of articles, Espaiia entre el munda anlzguo )' el munda
medieval (Madrid, 1988). There are a number of articles relevant to fourth to seventh
century Spain to be found in A. Gonzalez Blanco and J.M. Blazquez Martinez (eds),
Cristianismo)" aculturaci6n en liempos del impnio romano (Murcia, 1990). On the Visigothic
kingdom centred on Toulouse there is A.M. Jimenez Garnica, Origenes y desarrollo del
Reino visigodo de Tolosa (Valladolid, 1983). On its most important ruler see still K.F.
Stroheker, Eurich, Konig der Westgolen (Stuttgart, 1937). For the Suevic kingdom, the
most recent work will be found in the articles of EA. Thompson mentioned above
(A2(a», but W. Reinhart, Historia general del reino hispanico de los Suevos (Madrid, 1952)
retains its value.(b) The Visigothic Period
There are a number of general histories of the Visigothic kingdom in Spain. Amongst
the best of these are J. Orlandis, Hisloria del reino visigodo espanol (Madrid, 1988) and
L.A. Garcia Moreno, Hislmia de ESfJmia visigoda (Madrid, 1989). Jose Orlandis has also