The Visigoths of Toledo: The Kingdom That Bridged Rome and the Islamic Conquest of Spain
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M. Muñoz · AI-narrated by Madison (from Google)
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In 507, a Germanic king lost a battle in Gaul and moved his entire kingdom south across the Pyrenees into Spain. What followed was nearly two hundred years of Visigothic rule from a new capital at Toledo, a story of a small warrior elite governing millions of Hispano-Roman subjects it never fully absorbed. The Visigoths of Toledo follows that kingdom from its uncertain beginnings through King Leovigild's forceful unification of Iberia, the dramatic religious turn under his son Reccared, who abandoned Arian Christianity for Catholicism at the Third Council of Toledo and forged a lasting alliance between crown and Church, and the compilation of the Liber Iudiciorum, one of the most influential law codes of the early medieval West. It examines a monarchy that never solved its own succession, tracing king after king toppled by rebellion, exile, blinding, or assassination, and a nobility and episcopate whose councils could make or unmake a ruler. It follows Isidore of Seville's towering scholarship, the kingdom's uneasy and often violent policies toward its Jewish subjects, and the growing internal factionalism that culminated, on the eve of 711, in the disputed succession between King Roderic and the disinherited sons of Wittiza, a crisis that left Hispania fatally divided. Written for general readers, the book restores the Visigothic kingdom to its rightful place as a formative chapter of Spanish history in its own right, not merely a prelude to what came after.
In 507, a Germanic king lost a battle in Gaul and moved his entire kingdom south across the Pyrenees into Spain. What followed was nearly two hundred years of Visigothic rule from a new capital at Toledo, a story of a small warrior elite governing millions of Hispano-Roman subjects it never fully...
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