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Scholarship on the Iberian Peninsula in Late Antiquity and the early middle ages is burgeoning across a variety of disciplines and time periods, but the publication profile of the field remains rather disjointed. No publisher focuses on this area and time period and there is certainly no series devoted to the topic. This series thus provides a hub for high-quality publications in the field of late antique and early medieval Iberian studies. <br><br>The series moves beyond established chronological dividing lines in scholarship, which segregated Muslim Spain from ‘barbarian’ Spain, and ‘barbarian’ Spain from late Roman Spain. We also seek to be geographically inclusive, encouraging scholarship which explores the north of the peninsula, southern Gaul, and northern Africa insofar as they were integrated administratively, politically and economically with Hispania in our period.

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3 results in Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia

Rome and Byzantium in the Visigothic Kingdom
  • Beyond Imitatio Imperii
  • Edited by Damián Fernández, Molly Lester, Jamie Wood
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    20 February 2024
    Print publication:
    10 October 2023
  • 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.

Leadership, Social Cohesion, and Identity in Late Antique Spain and Gaul (500-700)
  • Edited by Dolores Castro, Fernando Ruchesi
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    18 October 2023
    Print publication:
    14 February 2023
  • The replacement of the Roman Empire in the West with emerging kingdoms like Visigothic Spain and Merovingian Gaul resulted in new societies, but without major population displacement. Societies changed because identities shifted and new points of cohesion formed under different leaders and leadership structures. This volume examines two kingdoms in the post-Roman west to understand how this process took shape. Though exhibiting striking continuities with the Roman past, Gaul and Spain emerged as distinctive, but not isolated, political entities that forged different strategies and drew upon different resources to strengthen their unity, shape social ties, and consolidate their political status.

Writing History in Late Antique Iberia
  • Historiography in Theory and Practice from the 4th to the 7th Century
  • Edited by Purificación Ubric Rabaneda
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    18 April 2023
    Print publication:
    15 November 2022
  • This volume reflects on the motivations underpinning the writing of history in Late Antique Iberia, emphasising its theoretical and practical aspects and outlining the social, political and ideological implications of the constructions and narrations of the past. The volume includes general topics related to the writing of history, such as the historiographical debates on writing history, the praxis of history writing and the role of central and local powers in the construction of the past, the legitimacy of history, the exaltation of Christian history to the detriment of other religious beliefs, and the perception of time in hagiographical texts. Further points of interest in the volume are the specific studies on the historiographical culture. All these issues are analysed from an innovative perspective, which combines traditional subjects with new historiographical topics, such as the configuration of historical discourse through another type of documentation like councils, hagiography or legislation.