The Visigoth settlement in the Iberian Peninsula and its relationship with the archaeological record of the 5th-6th centuries AD continues to be one of the most controversial issues in Spanish archaeology. The controversy relates to politics as much as it relates to archaeological research with two points remaining particularly controversial: the alleged use of the Visigoth past by the Francoist intelligentsia as an ideological affirmation of the regime and the contribution of archaeologist Julio Martinez Santa-Olalla in supporting and enabling this re-interpretation of Visigothic...

The central position of the province of Cuenca, Spain, was a decisive factor in its relationship with Toledo, the capital of the Visigothic kingdom. Also, its location meant that, from the middle of the 6th Century, it was directly affected by some of the most relevant historical episodes of those times: the foundation of the royal city of Reccopoli, the establishment of the Servitanus monastery, the transformation of Toledo as the metropolitan seat of the Carthaginian province and the military campaigns against the imperial forces. Parallel to this, archaeological excavations document a...

Tres usurpadores godos es un estudio sobre tres famosas usurpaciones de epoca visigoda. Se analiza en primer lugar la naturaleza del levantamiento del principe Hermenegildo (579-585), la guerra civil y el complejo contexto politico del momento, asi como las importantes implicaciones que se derivaron del conflicto. El segundo estudio aborda la rebelion del duque Argimundo a comienzos del reinado de Recaredo y las consecuencias que esta tuvo en el recien conquistado reino suevo. Destacado miembro del Aula Regia y dux prouinciae, Argimundus inicio una rebelion en la provincia Gallaecia que pudo...