Conquerors and Chroniclers of Early Medieval Spain
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- ISBN 9780853235545
- Weight: 960g
- Dimensions: 147 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 1999
- Publisher: Liverpool University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Kenneth Baxter Wolf is the John Sutton Miner Professor of History and Professor of Classics at Pomona College, USA. His many publications include Conquerors and Chroniclers of Early Medieval Spain (revised edition 1999) and The Eulogius Corpus (2019) in the Translated Texts for Historians series, and The Life and Afterlife of St. Elizabeth of Hungary: Testimony from Her Canonization Hearings (OUP 2011).
