Isidore of Seville and the Liber Iudiciorum : : the struggle for the past in the Visigothic Kingdom / / Michael J. Kelly.

• Superior document: Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World ; Volume 80
• VerfasserIn: Kelly, Michael J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Medieval and early modern Iberian world ; Volume 80.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Isidore of Seville and the "Liber Iudiciorum" establishes a novel framework for re-interpreting the Liber Iudiciorum (LI), the law-code issued in Toledo by the Visigothic king Recceswinth (649/653-672) in 654. The LI was a manifestation of a vibrant dialectical situation, particularly between two networks of authority, Isidore-Seville and Toledo-Agali, a defining characteristic of the discourse coloring the fabric of writing in Hispania, c. 600-660. To more fully imagine the meaning, significance and purposes of the LI , this book elicits this cooperative competition through a series of four case-studies on writing in the period. In addition to offering an alternative historiography for the LI , this book expands the corpus of "Visigothic Literature" and introduces what the author refers to as "Gothstalgie.".

Table of Contents

Introduction : the Isidore-moment, the Liber Iudiciorum, and the schools thesis -- In the beginning : the historyof the historiography of Isidore -- Origins and histories : creating new chains of signification -- The historical Lacunae and Damnatio[nes] Memoriae of the Hispana -- Pinnacle and twilight : the Liber Iudiciorum and the "historical" fulfillment of the Isidore-moment -- Conclusion.