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Book The Visigoths in Gaul and Iberia

Download or read book The Visigoths in Gaul and Iberia written by Alberto Ferreiro and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-11-30 with total page 943 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography is a supplement to the one previously published by Brill in 1988. This one covers material from 1984 to 2003. The chronology has been expanded to begin in the fourth century. Numerous Iberian Church Fathers not represented in the first one are now incorporated. The book contains author and subject indexes and is cross-referenced throughout.

Book The Power of Cities

Download or read book The Power of Cities written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Power of Cities focuses on Iberian cities during the lengthy transition from the late Roman to the early modern period, with a particular interest in the change from early Christianity to the Islamic period, and on to the restoration of Christianity. Drawing on case studies from cities such as Toledo, Cordoba, and Seville, it collects for the first time recent research in urban studies using both archaeological and historical sources. Against the common portrayal of these cities characterized by discontinuities due to decadence, decline and invasions, it is instead continuity – that is, a gradual transformation – which emerges as the defining characteristic. The volume argues for a fresh interpretation of Iberian cities across this period, seen as a continuum of structural changes across time, and proposes a new history of the Iberian Peninsula, written from the perspective of the cities. Contributors are Javier Arce, María Asenjo González, Antonio Irigoyen López, Alberto León Muñoz, Matthias Maser, Sabine Panzram, Gisela Ripoll, Torsten dos Santos Arnold, Isabel Toral-Niehoff, Fernando Valdés Fernández, and Klaus Weber.

Book Sociedad Y Territorio en la Alta Edad Media Castellana

Download or read book Sociedad Y Territorio en la Alta Edad Media Castellana written by Julio Escalona Monge and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2002 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study looks at the concepts of society, space, urbanism, expansion and organisation in the transition from Late Antiquity to the medieval period in Castile, Spain. Escalona reviews the evidence for the Iron Age and Roman antecedents in this area and details the history of fragmentation of the different territories within it, especially under the Visigoths and prior to the medieval period. Escalona discusses the development of a series of territories including Juarros, Carazo, Barbadillo and Salas, and focuses in particular on Lara which, by the middle of the 11th century, had become the main administrative center in the area, unifying many of the surrounding minor areas. Spanish text.

Book Mozarabs in Medieval and Early Modern Spain

Download or read book Mozarabs in Medieval and Early Modern Spain written by Richard Hitchcock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The setting of this volume is the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages, where Christianity and Islam co-existed side by side as the official religions of Muslim al-Andalus on the one hand, and the Christian kingdoms in the north of the peninsula on the other. Its purpose is to examine the meaning of the word 'Mozarab' and the history and nature of the people called by that name; it represents a synthesis of the author's many years of research and publication in this field. Richard Hitchcock first sets out to explain what being a non-Muslim meant in al-Andalus, both in the higher echelons of society and at a humbler level. The terms used by Arab chroniclers, when examined carefully, suggest a lesser preoccupation with purely religious values than hitherto appreciated. Mozarabism in León and Toledo, two notably distinct phenomena, are then considered at length, and there are two chapters exploring the issues that arose, firstly when Mozarabs were relocated in twelfth-century Aragón, and secondly, in sixteenth-century Toledo, when they were striving to retain their identity.

Book Reflections on Qurtuba in the 21st Century

Download or read book Reflections on Qurtuba in the 21st Century written by Francisco Javier Rosón Lorente and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cura Aquarum in Ephesus

Download or read book Cura Aquarum in Ephesus written by Gilbert Wiplinger and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two volumes of this lavishly illustrated publication mirror the comprehensive spectrum of the 12th International Symposium 'Cura Aquarum in Ephesus.' They introduce the latest results in the research on the city's aqueducts and on other current projects in relationship to water engineering. Sections focus on current projects concerned with water-engineering in Anatolia, the remaining Mediterranean regions, the Near East and Mesopotamia as well as Gaul and Germania, special hydraulic engineering structures such as castella and pressurized water-supply lines, nymphaea, baths and latrines, water as depicted in mosaics, and complementary areas of research.

Book The Iberian Peninsula Between 300 and 850

Download or read book The Iberian Peninsula Between 300 and 850 written by Javier Martínez Jiménez and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first work to address the end of Roman Hispania and the emergence of Medieval Spain from a principally archaeological perspective

Book The Arab Conquest of Spain

Download or read book The Arab Conquest of Spain written by Roger Collins and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1995-02-17 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, now available in paperback, is a challenging and controversial account of the history of Spain in the eighth century. In it Roger Collins assesses the political and cultural impact on Spain of the first hundred years of Arab rule, focusing upon aspects of continuity and discontinuity with Visigoth Spain.

Book Urban Transformations in the Late Antique West  Materials  Agents  and Models

Download or read book Urban Transformations in the Late Antique West Materials Agents and Models written by André Carneiro and published by Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra / Coimbra University Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the fruit of a highly productive international research gathering academic and professional (field- and museum) colleagues to discuss new results and approaches, recent finds and alternative theoretical assessments of the period of transition and transformation of classical towns in Late Antiquity. Experts from an array of modern countries attended and presented to help compare and contrast critically archaeologies of diverse regions and to debate the qualities of the archaeology and the current modes of study. While a number of papers inevitably focused on evidence available for both Spain and Portugal, we were delighted to have a spread of contributions that extended the picture to other territories in the Late Roman West and Mediterranean. The emphasis was very much on the images presented by archaeology (rescue and research works, recent and past), but textual data were also brought into play by various contributors.

Book Methods of Comparative Law

    Book Details:
  • Author : P. G. Monateri
  • Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
  • Release : 2012-01-01
  • ISBN : 1781005117
  • Pages : 339 pages

Download or read book Methods of Comparative Law written by P. G. Monateri and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprising an array of distinguished contributors, this pioneering volume of original contributions explores theoretical and empirical issues in comparative law. The innovative, interpretive approach found here combines explorative scholarship and research with thoughtful, qualitative critiques of the field. The book promotes a deeper appreciation of classical theories and offers new ways to re-orient the study of legal transplants and transnational codes. Methods of Comparative Law brings to bear new thinking on topics including: the mutual relationship between space and law; the plot that structures legal narratives, identities and judicial interpretations; a strategic approach to legal decision making; and the inner potentialities of the 'comparative law and economics' approach to the field. Together, the contributors reassess the scientific understanding of comparative methodologies in the field of law in order to provide both critical insights into the traditional literature and an original overview of the most recent and purposive trends. A welcome addition to the lively field of comparative law, Methods of Comparative Law will appeal to students and scholars of law, comparative law and economics. Judges and practitioners will also find much of interest here.

Book A History of Spain and Portugal

Download or read book A History of Spain and Portugal written by Stanley G. Payne and published by [Madison] : University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Romans  Barbarians  and the Transformation of the Roman World

Download or read book Romans Barbarians and the Transformation of the Roman World written by Professor Danuta Shanzer and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-28 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most significant transformations of the Roman world in Late Antiquity was the integration of barbarian peoples into the social, cultural, religious, and political milieu of the Mediterranean world. The nature of these transformations was considered at the sixth biennial Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity Conference, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in March of 2005, and this volume presents an updated selection of the papers given on that occasion, complemented with a few others,. These 25 studies do much to break down old stereotypes about the cultural and social segregation of Roman and barbarian populations, and demonstrate that, contrary to the past orthodoxy, Romans and barbarians interacted in a multitude of ways, and it was not just barbarians who experienced "ethnogenesis" or cultural assimilation. The same Romans who disparaged barbarian behavior also adopted aspects of it in their everyday lives, providing graphic examples of the ambiguity and negotiation that characterized the integration of Romans and barbarians, a process that altered the concepts of identity of both populations. The resultant late antique polyethnic cultural world, with cultural frontiers between Romans and barbarians that became increasingly permeable in both directions, does much to help explain how the barbarian settlement of the west was accomplished with much less disruption than there might have been, and how barbarian populations were integrated seamlessly into the old Roman world.

Book Hispania in Late Antiquity

Download or read book Hispania in Late Antiquity written by Kim Bowes and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-07-01 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays on late Roman Hispania describes the relationships between the peninsula and the rest of the late antique world. Its contributors – archaeologists, historians, and historians of art – address both the historical evidence and the complex historiography of late antique Hispania.

Book Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages

Download or read book Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages written by Thomas Glick and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work represents a considerably revised edition of the first comparative history of Islamic and Christian Spain between A.D. 711 and 1250. It focuses on the differential development of agriculture and urbanization in the Islamic and Christian territories and the flow of information and techniques between them.

Book Siege Warfare and Military Organization in the Successor States  400 800 AD

Download or read book Siege Warfare and Military Organization in the Successor States 400 800 AD written by Leif Inge Ree Petersen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Siege Warfare and Military Organization in the Successor States is the first study to comprehensively treat an aspect of Byzantine, Western, early Islamic, Slavic and Steppe military history within the framework of common descent from Roman military organization to 800 AD. This not only encompassed the army proper, but also a greater complex of client management, private military retinues, labor obligations and civilian conscription in urban defense that were systematically developed by the Romans around 400, and survived to be adopted and adapted by all successors. The result was a common post-Roman military culture suitable for more restrained economic circumstances but still able to maintain, defend and attack city walls with skills rivalling those of their Roman forebears.

Book Medieval Spain

    Book Details:
  • Author : R. Collins
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2002-07-30
  • ISBN : 1403919771
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Medieval Spain written by R. Collins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-07-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays contains contributions from a very wide range of British, American and Spanish scholars. Its primary concern is the relationships between the various ethnic, cultural, regional and religious communities that co-existed in the Iberian peninsula in the later Middle Ages. Conflicts and mutual interactions between them are here explored in a range of both historical and literary studies, to expose something of the rich diversity of the cultural life of later medieval Spain.

Book The Politics of Identity in Visigothic Spain

Download or read book The Politics of Identity in Visigothic Spain written by Jamie Wood and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 figure in the transmission of Classical and Patristic learning to the Middle Ages. Drawing on recent studies on identity formation in the early medieval period and an upsurge in interest in late antique Spain, this book examines the historical Isidore as a social actor managing a complex web of responsibilities and relationships. A comparative analysis of Isidore's historical works demonstrates that writing about the past was a method for reconciling Visigothic kings, nobles and Spanish bishops in a period of transformation. This results in a fresh portrait of Isidore as motivated, both politically and pastorally, to balance competing interests and ensure the spiritual and material security of the people of Spain.