Isaías y Jeremías: los profetas de Isidoro de Sevilla en Sentencías
The biblical text represents a fundamental part of Isidore of Seville´s Sentencias. This work, written towards the year 633, contains a large number of biblical quotations. Although Isidore managed to use a variety of references from both testaments, some books, passages and biblical episodes are mentioned more systematically than others. This is the case of the prophetic literature, especially the Books of Isaiah and Jeremiah. This article will focus mainly in the analysis of these two prophets and how their voices were used and introduced in the work of Isidore. The main purpose is to analyze the relation between the prophetic message and the reasons that motivated Isidore to give Isaiah and Jeremiah a predominant position inside his work. During the VIIth century, the political and religious context raised the question of the Kingdom´s unity. In this scenario, the prophetic message allowed Isidore to communicate his preoccupations regarding fundamental topics such as disobedience, the Final Judgment and the organization of the Church.
The Catholic Visigothic kingdom
In the spring of 586 King Leovigild was succeeded by his son Reccared. Reccared, abandoned Arianism and converted to the Catholic faith, and which, was intended to complete the political achievements of his father by ensuring the support of the nobility of Roman origin and the Catholic Church. In the period between the assassination of Witteric in 610 and the dethronement of Svinthila in 631, there were several kings. The most significant accomplishment of their reigns was the destruction of Byzantine power in the Peninsula. The reigns of Chindasuinth and his son Reccesuinth cover a long period during which both carried out extensive legislative work culminating in the promulgation of the Liber Iudiciorum, a great compilation of law initiated by Chindasuinth and completed by Reccesuinth in 654. This chapter discusses Egica and the attempt to establish dynastic succession, and Witiza, Roderic and the end of the Visigoth kingdom.
Settlement and Social Organization: The Merovingian Region of Metz
1. Introduction Part I. Social Organization: 2. Social organization: descriptive analysis of the documentary evidence 3. Creating a model: cemeteries of the Merovingian civitas of Metz 4. Testing the model: cemeteries outside the civitas of Metz Part II. Settlement: 5. Rural settlement 6. Intermediate settlement: Castra, vici, palaces and monasteries 7. Urbanism in Metz Part III. Conclusions: 8. Town and country, c. 450-c. 600 9. The later Merovingian period Bibliography Index.