The Visigoths

Author : Roger Collins
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470754567
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visigothic Spain 409 - 711 written by Roger Collins and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of Spain in the period between the end of Roman rule and the time of the Arab conquest challenges many traditional assumptions about the history of this period. Presents original theories about how the Visigothic kingdom was governed, about law in the kingdom, about the Arab conquest, and about the rise of Spain as an intellectual force. Takes account of new documentary evidence, the latest archaeological findings, and the controversies that these have generated. Combines chronological and thematic approaches to the period. A historiographical introduction looks at the current state of research on the history and archaeology of the Visigothic kingdom.

Author : J. N. Hillgarth
Publisher : Studies and Texts
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Visigoths in History and Legend written by J. N. Hillgarth and published by Studies and Texts. This book was released on 2009 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores one of the central myths of Spain: the idea that Spanish culture arose from that of the Visigoths. It begins with a sketch of Visigothic history, then proceeds to explore attitudes towards the Goths and legends and myths that developed around them from late antiquity to the twentieth century; such ideas proved influential among those who saw the Goths as their spiritual, if not literal, ancestors. The focus is on the myth of the Goths as expressed in literature of a broadly historical nature; many authors have played a significant role in forming and shaping this myth, and thus in shaping the mentality of their contemporaries and descendants. The Gothic myth was of great use to the different monarchies that succeeded the Goths after the Arabic invasion of 711. Visigothic kings were adopted as models by one age after another, from the rudimentary kingdom of Asturias in the ninth century to the world-monarchy of Spain under the Catholic Kings and the Habsburgs. Over the centuries, adroit 'improvements' on history and even outright fabrications influenced the creation of an idealized, epic past to which Spaniards look even today. This study of the evolution and persistence of the myth of Spain's Gothic roots is essential reading for scholars of Spanish history.

Author : Peter J. Heather
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780851157627
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Visigoths from the Migration Period to the Seventh Century written by Peter J. Heather and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1999 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 376 and 476 the Roman Empire in western Europe was dismantled by aggressive outsiders, "barbarians" as the Romans labelled them. Chief among these were the Visigoths, a new force of previously separate Gothic and other groups from south-west France, initially settled by the Romans but subsequently, from the middle of the fifth century, achieving total independence from the failing Roman Empire, and extending their power from the Loire to the Straits of Gibraltar. These studies draw on literary and archaeological evidence to address important questions thrown up by the history of the Visigoths and of the kingdom they generated: the historical processes which led to their initial creation; the emergence of the Visigothic kingdom in the fifth century; and the government, society, culture and economy of the "mature" kingdom of the sixth and seventh centuries. A valuable feature of the collection, reflecting the switch of the centre of the Visigothic kingdom from France to Spain from the beginning of the sixth century, is the inclusion, in English, of current Spanish scholarship. Dr PETER HEATHER teaches in the Department of History at University College London. Contributors: Dennis H. Green, Peter Heather, Ana Jimenez Garnica, Giorgio Ausenda, Ian Nicholas Wood, Isabel Velazquez, Felix Retamero, Pablo C. Diaz, Mayke de Jong, Gisela Ripoll Lopez, Andreas Schwarcz

Author : Herwig Wolfram
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520069831
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Goths written by Herwig Wolfram and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview on the formation of the Gothic tribes, their migrations, and the later history of the Ostrogothic and Visigothic settlements.

Author : Alberto Ferreiro
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004112063
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Visigoths written by Alberto Ferreiro and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1999 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coverage includes research on Visigothic identity in Gaul, regional studies of Galacia and Lusitania, anti-Semitism in Visigothic law, the political grammar of Ildephonsus of Toledo, monasticism and liturgy, numismatics, Roman-Visigothic pottery in Baetica, and urban and rural.

Author : Norman Roth
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004624244
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jews, Visigoths and Muslims in Medieval Spain written by Norman Roth and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1994-06-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jews settled in medieval Spain at least by the third century, and under the Christian Visigoths (sixth to eighth centuries) suffered increasing hostility and persecution, from which they were saved by the Muslim invasion (711). This book details the relations between Jews and the Visigoths, and then with the Muslims both in Muslim Spain proper (al-Andalus) and in later Christian Spain to the fifteenth century. It examines both the positive and negative aspects of those relations, drawing on a variety of sources many of which are here utilized for the first time. Political, socio-economic, scientific, cultural, literary and even sexual aspects of the history of the interaction between Jews and Visigoths, and Jews and Muslims, provide hopefully a new insight into a period of great importance in history.

Author : Karen Eva Carr
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472108916
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vandals to Visigoths written by Karen Eva Carr and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheds light on settlement patterns in early medieval Spain and demonstrates the local effect of the collapse of Roman Government

Author : Alberto Ferreiro
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004087934
Total Pages : 890 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Visigoths in Gaul and Spain written by Alberto Ferreiro and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1988 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David M. Gwynn
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780238924
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Goths written by David M. Gwynn and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Goths are truly a “lost civilization.” Sweeping down from the north, ancient Gothic tribes sacked the imperial city of Rome and set in motion the decline and fall of the western Roman empire. Ostrogothic and Visigothic kings ruled over Italy and Spain, dominating early medieval Europe. Yet after the last Gothic kingdom fell more than a thousand years ago, the Goths disappeared as an independent people. Over the centuries that followed, as traces of Gothic civilization vanished, its people came to be remembered as both barbaric destroyers and heroic champions of liberty. In this engaging history, David M. Gwynn brings together the interwoven stories of the original Goths and the diverse Gothic heritage, a heritage that continues to shape our modern world. From the ancient migrations to contemporary Goth culture, through debates over democratic freedom and European nationalism, and drawing on writers from Shakespeare to Bram Stoker, Gwynn explores the ever-widening gulf between the Goths of history and the popular imagination. Historians, students of architecture and literature, and general readers alike will learn something new about this great lost civilization.

Author : Douglas Boin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393635708
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome written by Douglas Boin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denied citizenship by the Roman Empire, a soldier named Alaric changed history by unleashing a surprise attack on the capital city of an unjust empire. Stigmatized and relegated to the margins of Roman society, the Goths were violent “barbarians” who destroyed “civilization,” at least in the conventional story of Rome’s collapse. But a slight shift of perspective brings their history, and ours, shockingly alive. Alaric grew up near the river border that separated Gothic territory from Roman. He survived a border policy that separated migrant children from their parents, and he was denied benefits he likely expected from military service. Romans were deeply conflicted over who should enjoy the privileges of citizenship. They wanted to buttress their global power, but were insecure about Roman identity; they depended on foreign goods, but scoffed at and denied foreigners their own voices and humanity. In stark contrast to the rising bigotry, intolerance, and zealotry among Romans during Alaric’s lifetime, the Goths, as practicing Christians, valued religious pluralism and tolerance. The marginalized Goths, marked by history as frightening harbingers of destruction and of the Dark Ages, preserved virtues of the ancient world that we take for granted. The three nights of riots Alaric and the Goths brought to the capital struck fear into the hearts of the powerful, but the riots were not without cause. Combining vivid storytelling and historical analysis, Douglas Boin reveals the Goths’ complex and fascinating legacy in shaping our world.