Roger Collins
Ashgate Variorum
Hardback
320
1992
Roger Collins deals here with the history of Spain specifically Christian Spain in the period from the 6th to the 10th century - from the Visigoths through the time of the Arab conquests up to the end of the era of Carolingian dominance across the Pyrenees. Particular emphasis indeed is placed upon the importance of this Pyrenean region in the lands now known as France as well as those in Spain with the author also calling into question the received notion of an Aquitanian identity in the 5th-9th centuries. Of the themes running through this volume that of regionalism is most evident here and in the articles on the Basques but appears equally for instance in the study on the relations between Merida and the Visigothic government. Similarly legal and cultural themes provide the focus for the articles on the workings of Visigothic law in the 9th-10th centuries or on the intellectual culture of Navarre but recur in other parts of the collection. Two of these articles appear for the first time in English while a third has been re-written for this volume and others supplied with additional notes or illustrations.
Ashgate Variorum
Hardback
320
1992
Roger Collins deals here with the history of Spain specifically Christian Spain in the period from the 6th to the 10th century - from the Visigoths through the time of the Arab conquests up to the end of the era of Carolingian dominance across the Pyrenees. Particular emphasis indeed is placed upon the importance of this Pyrenean region in the lands now known as France as well as those in Spain with the author also calling into question the received notion of an Aquitanian identity in the 5th-9th centuries. Of the themes running through this volume that of regionalism is most evident here and in the articles on the Basques but appears equally for instance in the study on the relations between Merida and the Visigothic government. Similarly legal and cultural themes provide the focus for the articles on the workings of Visigothic law in the 9th-10th centuries or on the intellectual culture of Navarre but recur in other parts of the collection. Two of these articles appear for the first time in English while a third has been re-written for this volume and others supplied with additional notes or illustrations.