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Conquerors and Chroniclers of Early Medieval Spain

Kenneth Baxter Wolf translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Liverpool University Press

Published:1st Nov '99

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From the perspective of the Hispano-Romans, the Visigoths who invaded Spain in the mid-fifth century were heretical barbarians. But Leovigild’s military success and Reccared’s conversion to Catholic Christianity led to more positive assessments of the Gothic role in Iberian history. John of Biclaro (c.590) and Isidore of Seville (c.625) authored histories that projected the Gothic achievements back on to their uncertain beginnings, transforming them from antagonists of the Roman Empire to protagonists of a new, independent Chistianity in Spain.

... undoubtedly ... convenient for those who would teach and study early medieval Spanish history...
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ISBN: 9780853235545

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 960g

224 pages

2nd Revised edition