Conquerors and Chroniclers of Early Medieval Spain
Kenneth Baxter Wolf translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Liverpool University Press
Published:1st Nov '99
Should be back in stock very soon
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...
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
ISBN: 9780853235545
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 960g
224 pages
2nd Revised edition