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The Power of Cities focuses on Iberian cities during the lengthy transition from the late Roman to the early modern period, with a particular interest in the change from early Christianity to the Islamic period, and on to the restoration of Christianity. Drawing on case studies from cities such as Toledo, Cordoba, and Seville, it collects for the first time recent research in urban studies using both archaeological and historical sources. Against the common portrayal of these cities characterized by discontinuities due to decadence, decline and invasions, it is instead continuity – that...

The late antique and the early medieval periods witnessed the flourishing of bishops in the West as the main articulators of social life. This influential position exposed them to several threats, both political and religious. Researchers have generally addressed violence, rebellions or conflicts to study the dynamics related to secular powers during these periods. They haven’t paid similar attention, however, to those analogous contexts that had bishops as protagonists. This book proposes an approach to bishops as threatened subjects in the late antique and early medieval West. In...

Markante "Erinnerungsorte" der GeschichteSpanien hat als Urlaubsland mehr zu bieten als traumhaft schöne Strände und atemberaubende Landschaften auf bis zu 3000m Höhe, die es ermöglichen, an einem Tag die Skiabfahrt mit dem Badeerlebnis zu verbinden. Es lockt mit einzigartigen Zeugnissen verschiedenster Kulturen seit dem ersten vorchristlichen Jahrtausend: der iberisch-keltiberischen, der phönizisch-punischen, der griechischen wie der römischen und nicht zuletzt der maurisch-arabischen. Oft jenseits ausgetretener touristischer Pfade gelegen, gewähren archäologische Orte tiefe...