Conquerors and Chroniclers of Early Medieval Spain

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From the perspective of the Hispano-Romans, the Visigoths who invaded Spain in the mid-5th century were heretical barbarians. But Leovigild's military success and Reccared's conversion to Catholic Christianity led to more positive assessments of the Gothic role in Iberian history. John of Biclaro (circa 590) and Isodore of Seville (circa 625) wrote histories that projected the Gothic achievements back to their uncertain beginnings, transforming them from antagonists of the Roman Empire to protagonists of a new, independent Christianity in Spain. The Muslim occupation of Spain in the early-8th century also prompted Christian historians to think creatively about the role of the invaders in the history of Spain. The fact that they did not, like their Gothic predecessors, convert to the religion of the peoples they conquered made it very difficult for the Latin historians to present them as the heroes of their chronicles. Nevertheless, the anonymous authors of the Mozarabic "Chronicle of 754" and the 9th-century "Chronicle of Alfonso III" modelled their efforts on those of Isodore and John of Biclaro, adopting and adapting their techniques for making sense of the conquest of a Christian territory by heterodox foreigners. Extensively revised, and with additional material, this volume contains translations of the four texts, together with essays about them.

Author Biography:

Kenneth Baxter Wolf is the John Sutton Miner Professor of History and Professor of Classics at Pomona College, USA. His many publications include Conquerors and Chroniclers of Early Medieval Spain (revised edition 1999) and The Eulogius Corpus (2019) in the Translated Texts for Historians series, and The Life and Afterlife of St. Elizabeth of Hungary: Testimony from Her Canonization Hearings (OUP 2011).

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November 1st, 1999

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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Translated with commentary by Kenneth Baxter Wolf

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2nd Revised edition

Pages

224

Series

Translated Texts for Historians

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147x210x13

ISBN-13

9780853235545

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3790542

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