Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia
About the Book Series
This series aims to offer a home for intellectually vibrant and methodologically innovative studies of late antique and early medieval Iberian societies and cultures. By ranging from the end of the Roman empire in Hispania to the fall of the Caliphate of Córdoba in the early eleventh century, the series embraces myriad perspectives, subjects and approaches, thereby providing a holistic overview of a period and place that was for too long neglected by specialist scholarship. Submissions would be welcome on any aspect of: the enduring legacy of Romanitas; the development of the post-Roman ‘Germanic’ kingdoms; the emergence of a dominant Islamic power in the peninsula after 711 and the cross-confessional society to which it gave rise; the society, economy and political apparatus of the Christians kingdoms of the north.
Please contact Dorothea Schaefter, Publisher at Routledge ([email protected]) to submit a proposal or to find out more about the series.
Visions of the End in Medieval Spain: Catalogue of Illustrated Beatus Commentaries on the Apocalypse and Study of the Geneva Beatus
1st Edition
By Ioan Williams, Therese Martin
January 15, 2026
This is the first study to bring together all twenty-nine extant copies of the medieval Commentary on the Apocalypse, which was originally written by Spanish monk Beatus of Liébana. John Williams, a renowned expert on the Commentary, shares a lifetime of study and offers new insights on these ...
The Iberian Peninsula between 300 and 850: An Archaeological Perspective
1st Edition
By Martínez Jiménez, Isaac Sastre de Diego, Carlos Tejerizo
January 09, 2026
The vast transformation of the Roman world at the end of antiquity has been a subject of broad scholarly interest for decades, but until now no book has focused specifically on the Iberian Peninsula in the period as seen through an archaeological lens. Given the sparse documentary evidence ...
The Visigothic Kingdom: The Negotiation of Power in Post-Roman lberia
1st Edition
Edited
By Sabine Panzram, Paulo Pachá
January 09, 2026
How did the breakdown of Roman rule in the Iberian Peninsula eventually result in the formation of a Visigothic kingdom with authority centralised in Toledo? This collection of essays challenges the view that local powers were straightforwardly subjugated to the expanding central power of the ...
Art in Spain and Portugal from the Romans to the Early Middle Ages: Routes and Myths
1st Edition
By Rose Walker
December 01, 2025
For generations maps of the pilgrimage roads and of the reconquista have bedevilled the study of Spanish art and architecture. They have also infiltrated the popular imagination and come to dominate the ways we think about Spain and Portugal. Art in Spain and Portugal from the Romans to the Early ...
Bishops, Community and Authority in Late Roman Society: Northwestern Hispania, c. 370-470 C.E.
1st Edition
By Rebecca Devlin
December 01, 2025
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. As this example ...
Framing Power in Visigothic Society: Discourses, Devices, and Artifacts
1st Edition
Edited
By Eleonora Dell' Elicine, Céline Martin
December 01, 2025
This volume examines how power was framed in Visigothic society and how a diverse population with a complex and often conflicting cultural inheritance was thereby held together as a single kingdom. Indeed, through this dynamic process a new, early medieval society emerged. Understanding this ...
Isidore of Seville and his Reception in the Early Middle Ages: Transmitting and Transforming Knowledge
1st Edition
Edited
By Jamie Wood, Andy Fear
December 01, 2025
Isidore of Seville (560—636) was a crucial figure in the preservation and sharing of classical and early Christian knowledge. His compilations of the works of earlier authorities formed an essential part of monastic education for centuries. Due to the vast amount of information he gathered and its ...
Leadership, Social Cohesion, and Identity in Late Antique Spain and Gaul (500-700)
1st Edition
Edited
By Dolores Castro, Fernando Ruchesi
December 01, 2025
The replacement of the Roman Empire in the West with emerging kingdoms like Visigothic Spain and Merovingian Gaul resulted in new societies, but without major population displacement. Societies changed because identities shifted and new points of cohesion formed under different leaders and ...
Local Churches, Monasteries, and Bishops in León Between the Ninth and Eleventh Centuries
1st Edition
By Mariel Pérez
December 01, 2025
This volume contributes to a deeper understanding of the different forms of ecclesiastical articulation in early medieval Spain. While traditional studies have focused on higher instances of ecclesiastical power, this work offers a bottom-up perspective centred on the local churches and the bonds ...
Minting, State, and Economy in the Visigothic Kingdom: From Settlement in Aquitaine through the First Decade of the Muslim Conquest of Spain
1st Edition
By Andrew Kurt
December 01, 2025
This study of the Visigothic kingdom's monetary system in southern Gaul and Hispania from the fifth century through the Muslim invasion of Spain fills a major gap in the scholarship of late antiquity. Examining all aspects of the making of currency, it sets minting in relation to questions of state...
Rome and Byzantium in the Visigothic Kingdom: Beyond Imitatio Imperii
1st Edition
Edited
By Damián Fernández, Molly Lester, Jamie Wood
December 01, 2025
This volume interrogates the assumption that Visigothic practices and institutions were mere imitations of the Byzantine empire. Contributors rethink these practices not as uncritical and derivative adoptions of Byzantine customs, but as dynamic processes in dialogue with not only the Byzantine ...
Shifting Ethnic Identities in Spain and Gaul, 500-700: From Romans to Goths and Franks
1st Edition
By Erica Buchberger
December 01, 2025
Traditional scholarship on post-Roman western culture has tended to examine the ethnic identities of Goths, Franks, and similar groups while neglecting the Romans themselves, in part because modern scholars have viewed the concept of being Roman as one denoting primarily a cultural or legal ...