Framing Power in Visigothic Society: Discourses, Devices, and Artifacts

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Table of Contents
1.	Texts, Discourses, and Devices: Reading Visigothic Society Today
	Eleonora Dell’ Elicine and Céline Martin
2. Presence of Augustine of Hippo in Isidore of Seville: Some Provisional Remarks
	Jacques Elfassi
3.	The Bishop and the Word. Isidore of Seville and the Production of Meaning
	Dolores Castro
4. Unearthing Peasant Societies: Historiography and Recent Contributions in the Archaeology of the Rural World during Visigothic Times
	Carlos Tejerizo
5.	Excolentes sacra fontium vel arborum. Pagan Cults, Kinship, and Regimes of Sacralization in the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo
	Eleonora Dell’ Elicine
6.	Ervig and Capital Penalties: The Way of Exile
	Céline Martin
7. ‘Put All Your Trust in Ansemundus’. A Look at Distrust in Visigothic-Byzantine Diplomatic Relations
	Margarita Vallejo
8.	Visigothic Currency: Recent Developments and Data for Its Study
	Ruth Pliego
Index
List of Illustrations
	Plates
		Pl. 1. Julio Martínez Santa Olalla, pictured with a snake. Originally from the Museo Arqueológico Nacional.
		Pl. 2. Distribution map of ‘Visigothic’ funerary context (Palol, 1966).
		Pl. 3. Cuarto de las Hoyas (Fabián, et al., 1985).
		Pl. 4. Extensive excavations at Ladera de los Prados (Strato, 2002a).
		Pl. 5. Silos at the site of Carratejera (Strato, 2003).
		Pl. 6. Distribution of rural sites in the valley of the Eresma and the Voltoya (province of Segovia).
		Pl. 7. Spatial distribution of features in Ladera de los Prados.
		Pl. 8. Metal tools from the context of La Mata del Palomar (Strato, 2002b).
		Pl. 9. Tremissis issued by Liuvigild with Victoria-cicada type on the reverse and mention of the Toleto mint.
		Pl. 10. New tremissis issued by Hermenegild.
		Pl. 11. Tremissis issued by Reccared I in Arofre.
		Pl. 12. Tremissis issued by Gundemar in Inceio.
		Pl. 13. Tremissis issued by Wittiza in Eliberri.
		Pl. 14. Tremissis issued by Egica in Tarracona.
		Pl. 15. Tremissis issued by Wittiza in Egitania.
		Pl. 16. Tremissis issued by Wittiza in Emerita.
		Pl. 17. Tremissis issued by Chintila in Tarracona.
		Pl. 18. Tremissis issued by Tulga in Tucci.
		Pl. 19. Tremissis issued by Recesswinth in Bracara.
	Figures
		Fig. 1. Graphic Graphic representation of the number of coins in each
hoard (sometimes the figure is only approximate), and
the number of coins registered in the corpus.
		Fig. 2. Comparison of the number of isolated finds published and the number represented in the corpus.
		Fig. 3. Isolated finds, hoard-related finds, and total number of known coins, grouped by monarch.
		Fig. 4. Known Visigothic coins according to monarch and province.
		Fig. 5. Number of hoards and isolated finds by province.
		Fig. 6. Number of specimens found in relation to hoards and isolated finds.
	Tables
		Table 1. Synoptic table of Visigothic coinage issued by Liuvigild and Hermenegild.
		Table 2. Quantitative representation of Visigothic kings in the monetary corpus.
		Table 3. Visigothic monetary hoards.
		Table 4. Isolated finds by reign.
		Table 5. Visigothic monetary finds (hoards and isolated finds) and their impact on the monetary corpus.
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