Visigothic Spain: New Approaches

by Edward James

Table of Contents:

Part I, Visigothic Spain: Its Religion, Culture and Society
-- J.N. Hillgarth, "Popular Religion in Visigothic Spain"
-- M.C. Díaz y Díaz, "Literary Aspects of the Visigothic Liturgy"
-- E.A. Thompson, "The Conversion of the Spanish Suevi to Catholicism"
-- Jacques Fontaine, "King Sisebut's *Vita Desiderii* and the Political Function of Visigothic Hagiography"
-- P.D. King, "King Chindasvind and the First Territorial Law-code of the Visigothic Kingdom"
-- Dietrich Claude, "Freedmen in the Visigothic Kingdom"
-- Roger Collins, "Mérida and Toledo: 550-585"

Part II, Visigothic Spain and the Rest of Europe
-- Edward James, "Septimania and its Frontier: An Archaeological Approach"
-- Michael Herren, "On the Earliest Irish Acquaintance with Isidore of Seville"
-- Roger E. Reynolds, "The 'Isidorian' *Epistula ad Leudefredum*: Its Origins, Early Manuscript Tradition, and Editions"

Genres: History

318 pages, Hardcover

First published April 24, 1980

About the author

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Edward James is Professor of Medieval History at University College Dublin. He won the University of California's Eaton Prize for his book Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century (1994) and a Hugo Award for (jointly) editing The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction. He co-wrote, with Farah Mendlesohn, A Short History of Fantasy (2009) and he has co-edited a number of other books, all of them essay collections, with Farah Mendlesohn and others. One of these is the first and only academic book on Terry Pratchett, called Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature (first edition 2000, shortlisted for a Hugo Award in 2001). He is currently working on book-length studies of Gregory of Tours and Lois McMaster Bujold.