Religious travelers were a common sight in the Mediterranean world during Late Antiquity
and the early Middle Ages. In fact, as Maribel Dietz finds in Wandering Monks, Virgins, and …

Previous scholarship has interpreted Bishop Isidore of Seville (d. 636) retrospectively as the
architect of the medieval Spanish church, as the father of Spanish identity, and as a key …

Abstract In Rome on Christmas Day 800 Charlemagne, the Frankish king, was acclaimed
'most August, crowned by God, great and peacemaking emperor'. This event transformed the …

Within the first few centuries after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, the majority of
those westerners once considered Romans adopted the identities of their barbarian rulers …

La España visigoda es una materia histórica fascinante, pero al mismo tiempo frustrante
para el historiador. Por un lado, los hispanovisigodos nos han dejado un amplio elenco …

The structures of the late ancient Visigothic kingdom of Iberia were rooted in those of Roman
Hispania, Santiago Castellanos argues, but Catholic bishops subsequently produced a …

It has been a recurrent shortcoming in the historiography of late antiquity and the early
Middle Ages to dismiss the importance of citizenship after Caracalla's edict, but especially …

Since the fall of the Visigothic kingdom in 711, analysis of its history has been tied to
contemporary Spanish politics. Political and economic developments in Spain since the …

This article positions the Spanish strand of the De viris illustribus in its social and literary
context. I argue that, rather than simply continuing the biographical catalogues of Jerome …

This article discusses the efforts by Catholic rulers to eliminate the Jewish communities of
the Visigothic kingdom in Spain. Their sustained effort to define Christian identity through the …