Companion to Visigothic Iberia

This volume offers an interdisciplinary introduction to the latest scholarship on the Iberian Peninsula under Visigothic rule in the sixth and seventh centuries. Revolutionary advances in archaeological research are reshaping a history that has traditionally relied on textual evidence, opening up exciting avenues of investigation. Following introductions to key sources and a chronological overview, international scholars present a series of chapters that address the evidence pertaining to the political, social, religious, cultural, and military history of the period from a range of thematic perspectives.Contributors are: David Addison, Enrique Ariño Gil, Ksenia Bonch Reeves, Santiago Castellanos, Roger Collins, Eleonora Dell'Elicine, Pilar Diarte-Blasco, Pablo C. Díaz, Rodrigo Furtado, Henar Gallego Franco, Raúl González Salinero, Kati Ihnat, Amancio Isla, Noel Lenski, Rebecca Maloy, Céline Martin, Iñaki Martín Viso, Javier Martínez Jiménez, Francisco José Moreno Martín, Ruth Pliego, Daniel Osland, Sabine Panzram, Christian Stadermann, Mark Lewis Tizzoni, Margarita Vallejo Girvés, Rosario Valverde Castro, Isabel Velázquez, and Rose Walker.

Molly Lester, Ph.D (2017), is an associate professor of history at the United States Naval Academy. Her publications and research focus on the religious cultures and institutions of post-Roman Iberia, particularly liturgy and canon law.Javier Martínez Jiménez, DPhil Oxford (2014), is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology at the University of Granada. He is a specialist in the archaeology and urbanism of the post-Roman West.Jamie Wood, Ph.D. (2007), is a departmental lecturer and director of short online courses at Oxford Lifelong Learning (University of Oxford). He has published widely on the religion and society of post-Roman Iberia, including The Politics of Identity in Visigothic Spain (Brill, 2012), and co-edited A Companion to Isidore of Seville (Brill, 2019).