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Romanness in Visigothic Hagiography
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Rome and Byzantium in the Visigothic Kingdom: Beyond Imitatio Imperii
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Castellanos, S. (2023) Romanness in Visigothic Hagiography. En Rome and Byzantium in the Visigothic Kingdom (pp. 253-275). Amsterdam University Press
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Amsterdam University Press
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2023
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[EN] This chapter evaluates the use (or not) of Roman identities and institutions in Visigothic hagiography. Visigothic hagiographical materials display a telling absence of ‘Romanness’, understood as a collective or individual consciousness of belonging to a Roman cultural tradition. This absence is tied to the erosion of ethnic binaries during the political construction of the Gothic kingdom, a process in which both the Roman aristocracy and the Catholic episcopate participated. I argue that in the seventh century, invocations of Roman heritage did not represent a continuation of ethnic conflict; rather, the hagiographers in their treatment of Rome’s legacy were less interested in articulating the Roman identities of contemporary individuals than in placing their subjects within a world with recognizably Roman features
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