M. C. Chiriatti, R. Villegas Marín (eds.), Mujeres imperiales, Mujeres reales, Brill, col. CAMA Series, 2 (2021), 2021
Queens Liuwigotho and Cixilo, two of the last known Visigothic queens, are analysed in a case stu... more Queens Liuwigotho and Cixilo, two of the last known Visigothic queens, are analysed in a case study to stress the problems of their historical contextualisation and the historiographical debate around their significance, as queens and as female characters in a time where few sources are available.
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Appendix Eugeniana, republished in 1984 by Nicolò Messina in his
work Pseudo-Eugenio di Toledo. Speculum per un nobile visigoto. This
reissue brought a new interpretation and restarted some debate on
the writings, which had already been subject of older discussions:
these poems were considered by Messina a speculum principis written during the years of the Visigothic kingdom of Toledo, although its actual chronology is far from sure. The manuscript tradition
and several content issues of the carmina will be analysed in order
to support or deny Messina’s hypotheses and to argue if we are
facing a useful source for the Visigothic aristocratic ideology or a
later writing.
the so-called “School of Les Avellanes”, was one of the prominent
antiquarians of the Catalonian Enlightenment and, possibly, a pioneer
of Catalonian archaeological field work. This study therefore analyses
the precedents, methods, innovations and drawbacks of 18th century
antiquarian Catalonian historiography through Pasqual’s research in
identifying of the location of the Laietan settlement of Rubricata.
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the Roman fifth century AD (Bonifatius and Aëtius), but despite this, most aspects of
her life and deeds are unknown or subject to profound debate. She could have played
an important role in Western politics, but ancient sources pay little attention to her.
Modern researchers are not sure about her date of birth, her offspring, or her faith. Even
her actual name is uncertain. This contribution examines the scarce biographical accounts of the Roman-barbarian noblewoman Pelagia to demonstrate her relevance as a female character during the final years of the Roman West. Some clues will be provided about her historical significance, as an example of a fifth century female aristocrat, an example of Roman-barbarian political unions, and an example of Arian conversions and their political relevance in military contexts.
mundo de los viajes, el transporte y las relaciones exteriores en el Bajo Imperio Romano. Al mismo tiempo, nos proponemos reivindicar también a Prisco, la vida y obra del cual son únicas y controvertidas, como fuente para la Historia romana tardía.
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Los trabajos aquí reunidos consideran tanto la evidencia literaria como la material (pintura y escultura, numismática, epigrafía monumental). Por su carácter interdisciplinar, esta obra permite observar desde diversos ángulos las estrategias que facultaron a estas mujeres para ejercer el poder. Con su liderazgo en las cortes imperiales y reales, las mujeres que transitan por estas páginas consiguieron trascender el papel de meras madres de emperadores y reyes para convertirse en auténticas protagonistas de la política contemporánea.
This work’s aim is to establish a theoretical model of interpretation of what has been called the gens Gothorum throughout the 5th-7th centuries AD. However, I will not only intend to review how our sources have depicted the Goths, but also how this description fits in the historical reality of these centuries. As this thesis’ title says, I will study the dialogue between discourse and reality.
So long this work is concerned with the construction of Gothic identity by the Greek and Latin sources of Late Antiquity, it is worth to begin with a status quaestionis in order to establish the meaning of “Goth” and the Gothic people. For many years, scholars have been arguing about the barbarians’ identity in Late Antiquity, about the degree of their “barbarism” or “Romaness”. New and recent perspectives on barbarian identity have changed the way in which scholars approach to the study of barbarian kingdoms in 5th-6th centuries, mainly through the anthropological notions of flexible group identities and the historical notion of Late Antique continuities. One can no longer understand the formation of a barbarian people and kingdom – such as the Goths – by using former statements of rigid and ethnically homogeneous Germanic communities that built up new Germanic kingdoms over a submitted and passive Roman population. Not only were barbarians and Romans cooperating, cohabitating and mutually sharing political, and social culture, but even the very definition and identity of these barbarians and their kingdoms was shaped by Christian Roman scholars and theorists. This work fits in all those new historical perspectives and explores both possibilities and limitations of these models in order to study a single gens: the gens Gothorum.
Given this, in the present work I will write a comprehensive analysis of the Goths, joining theorisations and models about them and their evolution’s reality. From migrating “barbarians” rejected by proud Roman aristocrats and clergymen, to the Toledan Catholic Gothic kingdom, the dialogue between discourse and historical reality will be stated. It is not, of course, an issue that has not been previously studied by modern scholars, but I hope this work will provide an innovative perspective on topics long debated. Especially, I will intend to offer a synthesis of several historical phenomena that contribute to shape the gens Gothorum throughout the 5th-7th centuries: their condition as a military group, their role as landowners, their aristocratic values and their barbarian identity.
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S'explrarà el valor i l'origen de les fonts de dubtosa autenticitat a l'hora de reconstruir la biografia d'un personatge femení obscur.
Appendix Eugeniana, republished in 1984 by Nicolò Messina in his
work Pseudo-Eugenio di Toledo. Speculum per un nobile visigoto. This
reissue brought a new interpretation and restarted some debate on
the writings, which had already been subject of older discussions:
these poems were considered by Messina a speculum principis written during the years of the Visigothic kingdom of Toledo, although its actual chronology is far from sure. The manuscript tradition
and several content issues of the carmina will be analysed in order
to support or deny Messina’s hypotheses and to argue if we are
facing a useful source for the Visigothic aristocratic ideology or a
later writing.
the so-called “School of Les Avellanes”, was one of the prominent
antiquarians of the Catalonian Enlightenment and, possibly, a pioneer
of Catalonian archaeological field work. This study therefore analyses
the precedents, methods, innovations and drawbacks of 18th century
antiquarian Catalonian historiography through Pasqual’s research in
identifying of the location of the Laietan settlement of Rubricata.
the Roman fifth century AD (Bonifatius and Aëtius), but despite this, most aspects of
her life and deeds are unknown or subject to profound debate. She could have played
an important role in Western politics, but ancient sources pay little attention to her.
Modern researchers are not sure about her date of birth, her offspring, or her faith. Even
her actual name is uncertain. This contribution examines the scarce biographical accounts of the Roman-barbarian noblewoman Pelagia to demonstrate her relevance as a female character during the final years of the Roman West. Some clues will be provided about her historical significance, as an example of a fifth century female aristocrat, an example of Roman-barbarian political unions, and an example of Arian conversions and their political relevance in military contexts.
mundo de los viajes, el transporte y las relaciones exteriores en el Bajo Imperio Romano. Al mismo tiempo, nos proponemos reivindicar también a Prisco, la vida y obra del cual son únicas y controvertidas, como fuente para la Historia romana tardía.
Los trabajos aquí reunidos consideran tanto la evidencia literaria como la material (pintura y escultura, numismática, epigrafía monumental). Por su carácter interdisciplinar, esta obra permite observar desde diversos ángulos las estrategias que facultaron a estas mujeres para ejercer el poder. Con su liderazgo en las cortes imperiales y reales, las mujeres que transitan por estas páginas consiguieron trascender el papel de meras madres de emperadores y reyes para convertirse en auténticas protagonistas de la política contemporánea.
This work’s aim is to establish a theoretical model of interpretation of what has been called the gens Gothorum throughout the 5th-7th centuries AD. However, I will not only intend to review how our sources have depicted the Goths, but also how this description fits in the historical reality of these centuries. As this thesis’ title says, I will study the dialogue between discourse and reality.
So long this work is concerned with the construction of Gothic identity by the Greek and Latin sources of Late Antiquity, it is worth to begin with a status quaestionis in order to establish the meaning of “Goth” and the Gothic people. For many years, scholars have been arguing about the barbarians’ identity in Late Antiquity, about the degree of their “barbarism” or “Romaness”. New and recent perspectives on barbarian identity have changed the way in which scholars approach to the study of barbarian kingdoms in 5th-6th centuries, mainly through the anthropological notions of flexible group identities and the historical notion of Late Antique continuities. One can no longer understand the formation of a barbarian people and kingdom – such as the Goths – by using former statements of rigid and ethnically homogeneous Germanic communities that built up new Germanic kingdoms over a submitted and passive Roman population. Not only were barbarians and Romans cooperating, cohabitating and mutually sharing political, and social culture, but even the very definition and identity of these barbarians and their kingdoms was shaped by Christian Roman scholars and theorists. This work fits in all those new historical perspectives and explores both possibilities and limitations of these models in order to study a single gens: the gens Gothorum.
Given this, in the present work I will write a comprehensive analysis of the Goths, joining theorisations and models about them and their evolution’s reality. From migrating “barbarians” rejected by proud Roman aristocrats and clergymen, to the Toledan Catholic Gothic kingdom, the dialogue between discourse and historical reality will be stated. It is not, of course, an issue that has not been previously studied by modern scholars, but I hope this work will provide an innovative perspective on topics long debated. Especially, I will intend to offer a synthesis of several historical phenomena that contribute to shape the gens Gothorum throughout the 5th-7th centuries: their condition as a military group, their role as landowners, their aristocratic values and their barbarian identity.
S'explrarà el valor i l'origen de les fonts de dubtosa autenticitat a l'hora de reconstruir la biografia d'un personatge femení obscur.
Borders in Late Antiquity were not exclusively physical. The period 230-700 saw many ideological changes that progressively departed from the Classical World and laid the foundations of the medieval years. Depictions and role models of noblewomen were not indifferent to these changes, which operated in every level in which power and social pre-eminence were affected. New forms of Christian lifestyle combined with the emergence of non-Roman power figures shaped gender. Common women underwent deep changes during this time; although Late Antique literary sources were far more concerned with noblewomen, empresses, and queens. Their role models, despite all the continuities, were newer and more different from their Classical predecessors.
This session provides three examples of the evolution of women in power in Late Antiquity, women who lived between two worlds: the case of an imperial princess between her barbarian origins and her Roman husband; the conflicting identity and political role of a Byzantine empress married to a man regarded as a barbarian by her fellow subjects; and the accomodation of a Visigothic queen between a repressing clerical role model and courtly alternatives. Three features of change and continuity in the ideological borders of Late Antiquity: Roman/Barbarian, both in the 3rd and 5th century Roman East and West; and Clerical/Courtly role models in Barbarian 6th and 7th century West.