*** - Rome and Byzantium in the Visigothic Kingdom: Beyond Imitatio Imperii (Amsterdam University Press, 2023)

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Rome and Byzantium in the Visigothic Kingdom: Beyond Imitatio Imperii, eds. Damián Fernández, Molly Lester, Jamie Wood (Amsterdam University Press, May 2023)

https://www.aup.nl/.../rome-and-byzantium-in-the...

This volume interrogates the assumption that Visigothic practices and institutions were mere imitations of the Byzantine empire. Contributors rethink these practices not as uncritical and derivative adoptions of Byzantine customs, but as dynamic processes in dialogue with not only the Byzantine empire but also with the contemporary Iberian context, as well as the Roman past. The goal of the volume is to approach Visigothic customs not as an uncritical adoption and imitatio of contemporary Roman models (an "acculturation" model), but as unique interpretations of a common pool of symbols, practices, and institutions that formed the legacy of Rome. The contributors argue that it is necessary to reconsider the idea of imitatio imperii as a process that involved specific actors taking strategic decisions in historically contingent circumstances.

CONTENTS:

Damián Fernández, Molly Lester, and Jamie Wood -- Introduction

Céline Martin -- Visigothic Spain and Byzantium. The story of a special (historiographical) relationship

Ian Wood -- The development of the Visigothic court in the hagiography of the fifth and sixth centuries

Merle Eisenberg -- Experiments in Visigothic Rulership: Minting and Monetary Reforms under Alaric II

Margarita Vallejo Girvés -- A comparison of Roman and Visigothic Approaches towards Exile

Cecily Hilsdale -- The Roman Jewel in the Visigothic Crown: A Reassessment of the Royal Votive Crowns of the Guarrazar Treasure

Damián Fernández -- Capitalhood in the Visigothic Kingdom

Molly Lester -- Making Rite Choices: Roman and Eastern Liturgies in Early Medieval Iberia

Erica Buchberger -- Ethnicity and Imitatio in Isidore of Seville

David Addison -- Re-imagining Roman Persecution in the Visigothic Passions

Santiago Castellanos -- Romanness in Visigothic Hagiography

Graham Barrett -- Empire and the Politics of Faction: Mérida and Toledo Revisited

Jamie Wood -- The agents and mechanics of connectivity: The Mediterranean world and the cities of the Guadiana valley in the sixth century

Ann Christys -- Staying Roman after 711? 

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