Leadership, social cohesion, and identity in late antique Spain and Gaul (500-700) / edited by Dolores Castro and Fernando Ruchesi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Castro, Dolores (Historian), editor.

Ruchesi, Fernando, editor.

Series:

Late antique and early medieval Iberia.

Late antique and early medieval Iberia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spain--History--Gothic period, 414-711.

Spain.

Gaul--History--To 1500.

Gaul.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2023.

Summary:

The replacement of the Roman Empire in the West with emerging kingdoms like Visigothic Spain and Merovingian Gaul resulted in new societies, but without major population displacement. Societies changed because identities shifted and new points of cohesion formed under different leaders and leadership structures. This volume examines two kingdoms in the post-Roman west to understand how this process took shape. Though exhibiting striking continuities with the Roman past, Gaul and Spain emerged as distinctive, but not isolated, political entities that forged different strategies and drew upon different resources to strengthen their unity, shape social ties, and consolidate their political status.

Contents:

Introduction / Dolores Castro and Fernando Ruchesi

Building leadership, forging cohesion : bishops and charity in late antiquity / Dolores Castro

The logic of control : postulating a Visigothic ontology of human being / Michael J. Kelly

Ritual communities and social cohesion in Merovingian Gaul / Alexander O'Hara

Constructing new leaders : bishops in Visigothic Hispania Tarraconensis (fifth to seventh centuries) / Meritxell Perez Martínez

Coexisting leaderships in the Visigothic cities : a 'coopetitive' model / Pablo Poveda Arias

Leadership and social cohesion in Merovingian Gaul and Visigothic Spain : the case of military groups / Fernando Ruchesi

Between Rome and Toulouse : the Catholic Episcopate in the regnum Tolosanum (418-507) / Christian Stadermann.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Oct 2023).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-003-69882-4

90-485-5377-6

9781003698821

OCLC:

1369263106