Editorial: Amsterdam University Press
Colección: Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia
Número de páginas: 488 págs. 23.4 x 15.6 cm
Fecha de edición: 02-07-2024
EAN: 9789463729154
ISBN: 978-94-6372-915-4
Precio (sin IVA): 200,58 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 208,60 €
When the bishop Hydatius found himself held hostage in Gallaecia, a Roman province in the northwestern Iberian Peninsula, by a band of Sueves in the year 460, he deployed his experience as an ambassador for his congregation and used his captivity as a tool for negotiating peace. This monograph focuses on the clerical community in Gallaecia and employs a case study and interdisciplinary approach, incorporating written and material evidence, to put bishops like Hydatius in their larger social and economic contexts to elucidate why the people living and working in their sees would imbue them with increasing authority and explain how their roles within their local communities expanded.