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Bishops under Threat
The late antique and the early medieval periods witnessed the flourishing of bishops in the West as the main articulators of social life. This influential position exposed them to several threats, both political and religious. Researchers have generally addressed violence, rebellions or conflicts to study the dynamics related to secular powers during these periods. They haven’t paid similar attention, however, to those analogous contexts that had bishops as protagonists. This book proposes an approach to bishops as threatened subjects in the late antique and early medieval West. In particular, the volume pursues three main goals. Firstly, it aims to identify the different types of threats ...
Bishops and the Politics of Patronage in Merovingian Gaul
Following the dissolution of the Western Roman Empire, local Christian leaders were confronted with the problem of how to conceptualize and administer their regional churches. As Gregory Halfond shows, the bishops of post-Roman Gaul oversaw a transformation in the relationship between church and state. He shows that by constituting themselves as a corporate body, the Gallic episcopate was able to wield significant political influence on local, regional, and kingdom-wide scales. Gallo-Frankish bishops were conscious of their corporate membership in an exclusive order, the rights and responsibilities of which were consistently being redefined and subsequently expressed through liturgy, dress, ...
Remembering and Forgetting the Ancient City
The Greco-Roman world is identified in the modern mind by its cities. This includes both specific places such as Athens and Rome, but also an instantly recognizable style of urbanism wrought in marble and lived in by teeming tunic-clad crowds. Selective and misleading this vision may be, but it speaks to the continuing importance these ancient cities have had in the centuries that followed and the extent to which they define the period in subsequent memory. Although there is much that is mysterious about them, the cities of the Roman Mediterranean are, for the most part, historically known. That the names and pasts of these cities remain known to us is the product of an extraordinary process...
León and Galicia Under Queen Sancha and King Fernando I
Acclaimed historians Bernard F. Reilly and Simon R. Doubleday tell the story of the reign of Queen Sancha and King Fernando I, who together ruled the territories of León and Galicia between 1038 and 1065—often regarded as a period in which Christian kings and their vassals asserted themselves more successfully in the face of external rivals, both Viking and Muslim. The reality was more complex. The Iberian Peninsula remained a space of multiple, intertwined forms of power and surprisingly nuanced relationships between—and among—the diverse configurations of Christian and Muslim authority. Some of these complexities would be obscured by later generations of medieval chroniclers, whose ...
Early medieval militarisation
The societies of ancient Europe underwent a continual process of militarisation, and this would come to be a defining characteristic of the early Middle Ages. The process was neither linear nor mono-causal, but it affected society as a whole, encompassing features like the lack of demarcation between the military and civil spheres of the population, the significance attributed to weapons beyond their military function and the wide recognition of martial values. Early medieval militarisation assembles twenty studies that use both written and archaeological evidence to explore the phenomenon of militarisation and its impact on the development of the societies of early medieval Europe. The interdisciplinary investigations break new ground and will be essential reading for scholars and students of related fields, as well as non-specialists with an interest in early medieval history.
La leyenda negra
¿Por qué en el país que protagonizó las mayores hazañas de la Historia y sin cuyo liderazgo ni el cristianismo ni Occidente habrían logrado sobrevivir, sus ciudadanos tienen tan mal concepto de su pasado y su presente? ¿Cómo es posible que esté dispuesta a autodestruirse una nación que conectó los dos mundos con «el descubrimiento de América», que impulsó la primera vuelta al mundo de Elcano, realizó colosales aportaciones como la Escuela de de Traductores de Toledo y vio nacer a personajes como Isidoro de Sevilla, Isabel la Católica, Fernando de Aragón, Carlos I, Felipe II, Cervantes, Santa Teresa, Goya, Jovellanos, Ramón y Cajal u Ortega? Era necesario analizar las razon...
La guerra cultural: los enemigos internos de España y Occidente
Occidente vive probablemente la peor crisis de su historia y España corre el riesgo de desaparecer como nación. Estos dos procesos no coinciden en el espacio-tiempo por casualidad sino que comparten causas comunes. Vivimos dentro de una guerra cultural que pasa a menudo desapercibida. Esta guerra tiene por supuesto una dimensión externa, que no conviene despreciar, pero si España y Occidente están hoy en peligro de continuar debilitándose en una crisis multipolar y permanente, es principalmente debido a factores internos: los adversarios más peligrosos los tenemos en casa. Este libro descubre y analiza quiénes son esos enemigos internos, reconociendo que aunque no están todos los qu...
Early Medieval Militarisation
This volume is the first to study the phenomenon of early medieval militarisation from a wide geographic and disciplinary perspective. It explores the impact of an enhanced role attributed to warfare and the military as characteristic features of a European world in the process of becoming medieval.
Ibero-Mediävistik
Der Begriff Ibero-Mediävistik bezeichnet den Zweig der Geschichtswissenschaft, der die iberischen Reiche des Mittelalters erforscht. Das inhaltliche Spektrum der Untersuchungen ist groß, die herangezogenen Quellentypen sind vielfältig. Diese Vielfalt aufzuzeigen ist das Anliegen dieser Aufsatzsammlung. Die Beiträge erforschen die Geschichte christlicher, muslimischer und jüdischer Gemeinschaften auf der iberischen Halbinsel aus unterschiedlichen und innovativen Perspektiven; sie reflektieren den lebendigen Dialog zwischen deutscher, spanischer und portugiesischer Mittelalterforschung.
