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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
P J Heather |
| ISBN: | 0851157629 9780851157627 |
| OCLC Number: | 42397322 |
| Description: | 563 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Linguistic evidence for the early migration of the goths / D.H. Green -- Creation of the visigoths / P. Heather -- Settlement of the visigoths in the fifth century / A.M. Jimenez Garnica -- Kinship and marriage among the visigoths / G. Ausenda -- Social relations in the visigothic kingdom from the fifth to the seventh century / A.I. Wood -- Jural relations as an indicator of syncretism from the law of inheritance to the dum inlicita of chindaswinth / I. Veldzquez -- As coins go home / F. Retamero -- Visigothic political institutions / P.C. Diaz -- Adding insult to injury / M. de Jong -- Symbolic life and signs of identity in visigothic times / G. Ripoll Lopez -- Cult and religion among the tervingi and the visigoths and their conversion to christinaity / A. Schwarcz -- Current issues and future directions in the study of visigoths / G. Ausenda and P.C. Diaz. |
| Series Title: | Studies in historical archaeoethnology, v. 4. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Peter Heather. |
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Abstract:
Presents studies of the advances made by the Visigoths, from the decline of the Roman Empire to the seventh century, when their kingdom stretched from the Loire to the Straits of Gibraltar.
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The work of top scholars in Visigothic studies... Using all evidence available, the volume addresses the evolution of the Visigoths in early medieval history. CHOICE Indispensable for all scholars of the Visigoths. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW Books on the Visigoths and Visigothic Spain in English are rare, so this is a welcome addition to their ranks... wide-ranging collection (which) has much to offer, not just to Spanish studies but to students of late antiquity in general. CLASSICAL REVIEW Read more...
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