Brill has published a new book on
the Liber Iudiciorum.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Isidore of Seville and the
“Liber Iudiciorum” establishes a novel framework for re-interpreting
the Liber Iudiciorum (LI), the law-code issued in Toledo by
the Visigothic king Recceswinth (649/653-672) in 654. The LI was
a manifestation of a vibrant dialectical situation, particularly between two
networks of authority, Isidore-Seville and Toledo-Agali, a defining
characteristic of the discourse coloring the fabric of writing in Hispania, c.
600-660. To more fully imagine the meaning, significance and purposes of the LI,
this book elicits this cooperative competition through a series of four
case-studies on writing in the period. In addition to offering an alternative
historiography for the LI, this book expands the corpus of
“Visigothic Literature” and introduces what the author refers to as
“Gothstalgie.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Michael J. Kelly lectures
history, critical theory, and the philosophy of history at Binghamton
University (SUNY) and is Director of Networks and Neighbours and Gracchi Books
(gracchibooks.org). He edited Theories of History: History Read Across the
Humanities (Bloomsbury, 2018), with Arthur Rose.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 Introduction: the
Isidore-Moment, the Liber Iudiciorum, and the Schools Thesis
1 A Brief History and
Introduction to Seventh-Century Hispania
2 The Isidore-Moment and the
Liber Iudiciorum
3 The “Schools” – Hasta Siempre,
Bishop Isidore
2 In the Beginning: The History
of the Historiography of Isidore
1 Introduction
2 The Historiography of Isidore
3 The Representations
4 Other Contemporary Historical
Representations of Isidore
5 Conclusion
3 Origins and Histories: Creating
New Chains of Signification
1 Introduction
2 Isidore’s Literature of the
Past
3 Isidore’s [Use, Abuse and
Philosophy of] History
4 Conversion and the Locating of
Seville
5 The Goths in Isidore-Seville’s
Historical Representations
6 Conclusion
4 The Historical Lacunae and
Damnatio[nes] Memoriae of the Hispana
1 Introduction
2 The Hispana
3 The Example of Gundemar and
his Council (610)
4 The Example of the Third
Council of Seville (624)
5 Pinnacle and Twilight: The
Liber Iudiciorum and the “Historical” Fulfillment of the Isidore-Moment
1 Introduction
2 What Is the Liber Iudiciorum?
3 Interlude: Short Historical
Background
4 The Structure of the Liber
Iudiciorum, and Its Meaning
5 Constituent Influence of the
School of Isidore-Seville
6 Conclusion
Conclusion
Appendix: Julian of Toledo Not an
Agalian
Bibliography
Index
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