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Aristocrats and Statehood in Western Iberia, 300-600 C.E. (Hardcover)
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Aristocrats and Statehood in Western Iberia, 300-600 C.E. (Hardcover)
Series: Empire and After
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In a distant corner of the late antique world, along the Atlantic
river valleys of western Iberia, local elite populations lived
through the ebb and flow of empire and kingdoms as historical
agents with their own social strategies. Contrary to earlier
historiographical accounts, these aristocrats were not oppressed by
a centralized Roman empire or its successor kingdoms; nor was there
an inherent conflict between central states and local elites.
Instead, Damian Fernandez argues, there was an interdependency of
state and local aristocracies. The upper classes embraced state
projects to assert their ascendancy within their communities. By
doing so, they enacted statehood at the local level, bringing state
presence to the remotest corners of Iberia, both under Roman rule
and during the later Suevic and Visigothic kingdoms. Aristocrats
and Statehood in Western Iberia, 300-600 C.E. combines
archaeological and literary sources to reconstruct the history of
late antique Iberian aristocracies, facilitating the study of a
social class that has proved elusive when approached through the
lens of a single type of evidence. This is the first study of
Iberian elites that covers both the late Roman and the post-Roman
periods in similar depth, and the chronological approach allows for
a new perspective on social agency of late antique nobility. While
the end of the Roman empire changed the political, economic, and
social strategies of local aristocrats, the book also demonstrates
a considerable degree of continuity that lasted until the late
sixth century.
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