Lives of the Visigothic Fathers / Edition 1

by Liverpool University Press

Overview

These five seventh-century religious texts cast light not only on the development of the church in Visigothic Spain and its internal politics, but also on its, at times troubled, relationship with the Visigothic state and the history of that state itself, particularly in the period when the Visigoths changed their adherence from Arian to Trinitarian Christianity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780853235828
Publisher:	Liverpool University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1998
Series:	Translated Texts for Historians LUP , #26
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 5.80(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Translator's Notes
KING SISEBUT: Life and Martyrdom of Saint Desiderius
BRAULIO OF SARAGOSSA: The Life of St Aemilian the Confessor, called the hooded
[PAUL THE DEACON]: The Lives of the Fathers of Merida
St. Ildefonsus of TOLEDO: On the Lives of Famous Men
[VALERIUS OF ELBIERZO]: The Life of St Fructuousus of Braga
Bibliography
Index
Map

Editorial Reviews

"... these intriguing texts will help dispel the still prevalent notion that Visigothic Spain was some kind of "Dark Age".—Bulletin of Hispanic Studies

From the Publisher

"...these intriguing texts will help dispel the still prevalent notion that Visigothic Spain was some kind of 'Dark Age'"

Bulletin of Hispanic Studies