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way to the continuing critical edition of the whole Hispana corpus: G. Martinez Diez and
F. Rodriguez (eds) La coleccion canonica hispana (5 parts in 6 vol., including preliminary
study. Madrid, 1966-92). A final volume in this series should appear soon.
A representative selection of some of the work on the leading figures of the Spanish
church in the Visigothic period is all that can be offered here, but reference can be
made to the substantial bibliography of A. Ferreiro (AI). Leander's only monastic work
is edited in]. Velazquez, Leandro de Sevilla: de la instruccion de las Virgenes (Madrid, 1979).
The outstanding study of Isidore remains that of]. Fontaine Isidore de Seville et la culture
classique dans l'Espagne wisigothique (2 vols, Paris, 1959), with a new third volume of
retractationes, notes and new bibliography (Paris, 1983). Some new editions of Isidore's
works have appeared, including C. Chaparro Gomez (ed.), Isidorus Hispalensis, de Ortu
et Obitu Patrum (Paris, 1985). Others of his writings are still only available in F. Arevalo's
late eighteenth century edition, which is reprinted in PL. vols. LXXXI-LXXXIV. For
the Etymologiae the edition of W.M. Lindsay, Isidori Etymologiae sive Origenes (2 vols Ox-
ford, 1911) remains standard. A multi-volume new edition being published in Paris has
so far only managed to cover four of the twenty books: numbers II, IX, XII, and XVII.
Isidore's De Natura Rerum can be found with a substantial study in]. Fontaine, Isidore de
Seville, Trait'; de la Nature (Bordeaux, 1960). The Regula and an edition of the Sententiae
will be found in]. Campos and I. Roca (eds), Santos Padres Espanoles II (Madrid, 1971).
The De Viris Illustribus will be found in e. Codoner Merino (ed.), El 'De Viris Illustribus'
de Isidoro de Sevilla (Salamanca, 1964). A number of interesting articles on Isidore will
be found in the papers of the commemorative conference, M.e. Diaz y Diaz (ed.),
Isidoriana (Leon, 1961). Some of M.C. Diaz y Diaz's own more significant articles, not
just related to Isidore, are helpfully collected together in his De Isidoro al siglo Xl
(Barcelona, 1976).
The letters of king Sisebut, together with his Vita Desiderii, and the collection of legal
formulae of Visigothic origin but compiled in the Asturian kingdom, are all edited in
]. Gil (ed.), Miscellanea Wisigothica (Seville, 1972). Braulio's letter collection may be found
in L. Riesco Terrero (ed.), Epistolario de San Braulio (Seville, 1975), though his Vita
Aemiliani is only to be read in the rare edition of L. Vazquez de Parga, Sancti Braulionis,
Vita S. Aemiliani (Madrid, 1943). The poetic works of bishop Eugenius of Toledo are
edited by F. Vollmer in M.G.H. A.A. vol. XIV (Berlin, 1905), but there is an interesting
study and version of the psuedo-Eugenian corpus of poems in N. Messina, Pseudo-Eugenio
di Toledo: speculum per un nobile visigoto (Santiago de Compos tela, 1984). I1defonsus's De
Viris lllustribus appears in C. Codoiler Merino (ed.), El 'De Vlris lllustribus' de lldefonso de
Toledo (Salamanca, 1972). On this work see the article by]. Fontaine in Anales Toledanos,
2 (1971), pp. 97-118.
On the extant church buildings of the Visigothic period there has been much work
done. The fullest excavation report, which also served to locate the building firmly in
this period, is L. Caballero Zoreda and].1. Latorre Macarron, La iglesia y el monastn'io
visigodo de Santa Maria de Me/que. (Madrid, 1980). On the only clearly dated church,
there is P. de Palol, La Basilica de San Juan de Banos (Palencia, 1988). On two of the
other better known of these churches see M.A. Mateos Rodriguez, San Pedro de La Nave
(Zamora, 1980), and S.A. Ordax and].A. Abasolo Alvarez, La ermita de Santa Maria,
Quintanilla de las Vinas (Burgos, 1982). On a recently identified building of this time
there is S.A. Ordax, 'La basilica hispanovisigoda de Alcuescar (Caceres)" Norba, 2 (1981),
pp. 7-22, and L. Caballero, 'Santa Lucia del Trampal, Alcuescar', Informacion Cultural,
75 (1989), pp. 12-19.
For an introduction to monasticism in the Visigothic period see A. Mundo, 'II
Monachismo nella peninsola iberica fino al secolo VII', Setimane di studio sull'alto medioevo,
4 (Spoleto, 1957), and some of the studies in the collections of articles by]. Orlandis
(B2(b)). The most substantial treatment of the subject is that of A. Linage Conde, Los
origenes del monacato benedictino en la peninsula ibmca (3 vols Leon, 1973). For some of the
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