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

Bibliographies

Introductory Note

THESE have been divided into two sections: A listing works in English and B listing those

in other languages. Each is in turn subdivided roughly by the character of subject

matter:

1. GENERAL


2. POUTICAL AND LEGAL HISTORY


3. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC


4. CULTURE AND THE CHURCH
   Sources, both in translation and the original texts, are listed in the appropriate sections.
   Obviously limitations of space prevent these bibliographies from being anything other
   than selective, although the attempt has been made to make that in English reasonably
   comprehensive. In making the choice of material for inclusion greater weight has been
   given to primary rather than secondary sources, for obvious reasons. Each section is
   further subdivided chronologically, or as between Umayyad Al-Andalus and the Christian
   states. Some additional bibliography on detailed points will be found in the references.

Abbreviations

L. V. Leges Visigothorum, the Codes of Reccesuinth and Ervig, in K. Zeumer (ed.)

M.G.H., Leges I (Hanover and Leipzig, 1902)

M. G.H. Monumenta Gennaniae Historica, divided by series:

A.A. Auctores Antiquissimi

Leges

S.R. G. Scrip/ores Rerum Germanicarum

S.S. Scriptores

P.L. Patr%gia Latina, ed. J.P. Migne

V:S. Visigothic Spain: New Approaches, E. James (ed.) (Oxford, 1980)

A. WORKS IN ENGLISH

1. GENERAL

A comprehensive bibliography of works in all languages relating to the Visigothic period
may be found in A. Ferreiro, The Visigoths in Gaul and Spain, A.D. 418-711: a Bibliography
(Leiden, 1988). No comparable bibliography exists for the other periods considered in
this book. Of the general treatments of the history of Spain in the Middle Ages that of
J.F. O'Callaghan, A History of Medieval Spain (Ithaca, 1975) remains the best. The old
and out-dated sections on the peninsula in the various volumes of the CamiJridge Me-
dieval History will be replaced by the pertinent chapters of the New CamiJridge Medieval
History. Volume II has a chapter on Spain in the eighth and ninth centuries and volume
III one on the period c. 900-1050, both by the author of this book. H. Livermore, The
Origins of spain and Portugal (London, 1971) covers the fourth to ninth centuries but
suffers from an idiosyncratic reliance on some spurious sources: the chronicles forged
by Roman de la Higuera in the sixteenth century. P. Linehan, History and Historians of
Medieval Spain (Oxford, 1993), which covers the sixth to thirteenth centuries is required

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