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Table of Contents
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Preface and Acknowledgements
Sabine Panzram
The Day Before – Prologue
Laurent Brassous
Fig. 2.1 The provinces of late Roman Spain. © Pascal Brunello and Laurent Brassous.
Concepts of Central and Local Power
Javier Arce
Jaime Vizcaíno Sánchez and Luis Alberto García Blánquez
Fig. 4.1 Plan of the rural complex of Senda de Granada (Murcia, Spain). © Jaime Vizcaíno Sánchez and Luis Alberto García Blánquez.
Fig. 4.2 View of some silos and detail of silo-dump 4015, where the cloisonné purse mount was found. © Jaime Vizcaíno Sánchez and Luis Alberto García Blánquez.
Fig. 4.3 Plan of the religious building and the sacred cemetery. Details of the tombs located in the southwestern corner and grave 10, showing the disk brooch and the belt buckle. © Jaime Vizcaíno Sánchez and Luis Alberto García Blánquez.
Fig. 4.4 Grave goods of tomb 10: disk brooch and belt buckle. © Jaime Vizcaíno Sánchez and Luis Alberto García Blánquez.
Fig. 4.5 Cloisonné purse mount found in silo-dump 4015. © Jaime Vizcaíno Sánchez and Luis Alberto García Blánquez.
Paulo Pachá
Table 5.1 Attendance of bishops from Mérida, Seville, and Córdoba at the general councils
Sebastian Steinbach
Power, Identity, and Ethnicity
Herwig Wolfram
Manuel Koch
Christoph Eger
Fig. 9.1 Cacera de las Ranas, Prov. Toledo, burial 7. © After Ardanaz Arranz 2000, pp. 25–32.
Fig. 9.2 The evolution of ‘Visigothic’ dress accessories in southern France and Spain: diachronic regional sequences. © After Pinar Gil 2012b, p. 118, fig. 9.
Fig. 9.3 San Miguel de Arroyo, Province of Valladolid, burial 10. © After Palol y Salellas 1969, p. 108, fig. 9.
Javier Martínez Jiménez
Representations of Power
Lauro Olmo Enciso
Fig. 11.1 Recopolis. © Department of Archaeology, University of Alcalá.
Fig. 11.2 Aerial view of Recopolis. © cnig.es – Centro Nacional de Información Geográfica, PNOA, 2010, Spain.
Fig. 11.3 Recopolis: excavated area. © Olmo Enciso 2018.
Fig. 11.5 Archaeological interpretation of GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar) data from the eastern part of the palatial complex. © Olmo Enciso, Castro-Priego, and Diarte-Blasco, in press.
Fig. 11.7 The reorganized road system around Recopolis. © Olmo Enciso 2018.
Ruth Pliego
Fig. 12.2 Visigothic tremissis in the name of Anastasius, with pectoral cross. © British Museum, inv. no. 1860,0330.1034.
Fig. 12.5 Obverse of a solidus of Tiberius II Constantine (578–582). © private collection.
Fig. 12.6 Visigothic crowns: obverse of a tremissis of Wamba of Toledo and obverse of a tremissis of Egica of Toledo. © Private collection and Numismatic Society of America, New York.
Fig. 12.8 Visigothic crowns: obverse of a tremissis of Roderic (Egitania). © Museo de Conimbriga.
Fig. 12.9 Visigothic crowns: obverse of a tremissis of Erwig (Emerita). © Royal Coin Cabinet Stockholm.
Fig. 12.12 Obverse of a tremissis of Erwig (Córdoba). © Museo Prasa.
Fig. 12.13 Tremissis of Agila II of Narbona. © Museo Arqueológico Nacional Madrid.
Michael J. Kelly
Javier de Santiago Fernández
Fig. 14.1 Epitaph of Fl. Salutius. © Museo Arqueológico Nacional Madrid, inv. no. 50083.
Fig. 14.2 Epitaph of Florentia and Marcella. © Museo Arqueológico Nacional Madrid, inv. no. 57769.
Fig. 14.3 Epitaph of Ilpericus. © Museo Arqueológico Nacional Madrid, inv. no. 62292.
Power and Church
Rafael Barroso Cabrera
Fig. 15.1 Map of the municipalities and necropoleis with Pontic-Danubian materials north of the Sistema Central. © Rafael Barroso Cabrera.
Isabel Sánchez Ramos and Jorge Morín de Pablos
Fig. 16.1 Plan of Toledo in the seventh century. 1) Location proposed for the episcopal see; 2) fragment of sacred stones related to the Visigothic cathedral (St. Ginés street and St. Pedro Martir convent); 3) location proposed for the Holy Apostles churc
Fig. 16.2 Sculptural decoration in marble found in Toledo. a) An epigraph that commemorates the Catholic reconsecration of the basilica of St. Mary (ecclesia sanctae Mariae virginis); b) a cancel of the liturgical sculptural group reused in the walls of S
Fig. 16.3 Location of the main Visigothic archaeological sites in the region of Toledo. 1) Las Vegas (La Pueblanueva); 2) El Saucedo (Talavera de la Reina); 3) Las Tamujas (Malpica de Tajo); 4) St. Maria de Abajo (Carranque); 5) El Rincón (Alcolea de Tajo
Fig. 16.4 Areal view of the pantheon and all the burials documented in the archaeological site of Los Hitos. © Isabel Sánchez Ramos and Jorge Morín de Pablos.
Fig. 16.5 Sacred architecture in the territory of Toledo: a) St. Pedro de la Mata church; b) Guarrazar; c) St. Maria de Melque church. © Isabel Sánchez Ramos and Jorge Morín de Pablos.
Markus Mülke
Jamie Wood
The Day After – Epilogue
Julián M. Ortega Ortega
Fig. 19.1 Cities that signed peace treaties, according the Arabic chronicles and the lead seals. © Julián M. Ortega Ortega.
Fig. 19.2 Location of the archaeological sites of the municipality of Loja (Granada) cited in the text. © Julián M. Ortega Ortega.
Fig. 19.3 Dirhems minted in al-Andalus before year 756 in hoards documented in the central regions of the Umayyad Empire. © Julián M. Ortega Ortega.
Paulo Pachá
Index of Places, Names and Subjects