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By Roger Collins
This heritage of Spain within the interval among the tip of Roman rule and the time of the Arab conquest demanding situations many conventional assumptions in regards to the background of this period.
- Presents unique theories approximately how the Visigothic country used to be ruled, approximately legislation within the state, concerning the Arab conquest, and concerning the upward thrust of Spain as an highbrow strength.
- Takes account of latest documentary facts, the newest archaeological findings, and the controversies that those have generated.
- Combines chronological and thematic techniques to the interval.
- A historiographical advent appears to be like on the present nation of study at the historical past and archaeology of the Visigothic kingdom.
Content:
Chapter 1 From Empire to nation, 409–507 (pages 9–37):
Chapter 2 The Imposition of solidarity, 507–586 (pages 38–63):
Chapter three The Catholic country, 586–672 (pages 64–91):
Chapter four The Visigothic Twilight, 672–710 (pages 92–116):
Chapter five the top of the Visigothic country (pages 117–143):
Chapter 6 Books and Readers (pages 145–173):
Chapter 7 Archaeology: Cemeteries and church buildings (pages 174–196):
Chapter eight Archaeology: Rural and concrete Settlements (pages 197–222):
Chapter nine legislation and Ethnic id (pages 223–246):
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Far smaller quantities of supplies would have been available under such circumstances, and these would depend on seasonal and other conditions. It is very hard to believe that a body of people as large as 100,000 could support itself in such conditions, and in a hostile environment. It is probably more realistic to see the Visigothic confederacy as being no more than the size of a small Roman army. Together with family members, this may have amounted to something in the region of 30,000 people at most.
46 a political history their number and his family establish any kind of monopoly on the royal office. The choice of monarch was primarily in the hands of the nobility of the court, who provided the immediate entourage of the monarchs and whose own military following supplemented his. It was from their own number that the selection was most likely to be made. This may have disenfranchised those who were not close to the court circle, and who may have enjoyed regional rather than curial standing.
142. The hope expressed was that Theudis would send military assistance to his nephew if he were chosen as king, but this was not forthcoming. 15 PLRE vol. 2: Fl. Eutharicus Cilliga, p. 438. 16 Procopius, History of the Wars, V. xii. 50–2, ed. Dewing, vol. III, pp. 130–1. 17 Ibid. V. xii. 52–4, ed. Dewing, vol. III, pp. 132–3; see also John Moorhead, Theoderic in Italy (Oxford, 1992), pp. 190–1. 18 It is a palimpsest, which is to say the original text has been erased at a later date, in order to allow a different one to be written over it.