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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 Between 376 and 476 the
Roman Empire in western Europe was dismantled by aggressive
outsiders, barbarians' as the Romans labelled them. Chief among
these were the Visigoths, a new force of previously separate Gothic
and other groups from south-west France, initially settled by the
Romans but subsequently, from the middle of the fifth century,
achieving total independence from the failing Roman Empire, and
extending their power from the Loire to the Straits of Gibraltar.
These studies draw on literary and archaeological evidence to
address important questions thrown up by the history of the
Visigoths and of the kingdom they generated: the historical
processes which led to their initial creation; the emergence of the
Visigothic kingdom in the fifth century; and the government,
society, culture and economy of the mature' kingdom of the sixth
and seventh centuries. A valuable feature of the collection,
reflecting the switch of the centre of the Visigothic kingdom from
France to Spain from the beginning of the sixth century, is the
inclusion, in English, of current Spanish scholarship. Dr PETER
HEATHERteaches in the Department of History at University College
London.
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