Marriage, gender, and the politics of "unity" in Visigothic Spain

摘要: This dissertation’s thesis is that the marital rhetoric and gendered imagery of late classical, Christian political discourse appear in narrative, conciliar, legal texts produced Visigothic Spain between 579 654 A.D. for purpose expressing conflict, rather than “unity.” opposes views kingdom as a model successful unification by showing how maleauthored, Spanish sources far from being silent on religio-political conflicts use marriage, women, wealth metaphors disputes over orthodoxy status. These early medieval suggest new paradigm “unity” which Jews function “enemy,” so doing, establish decidedly different antiquity. Examples this Third Fourth Councils Toledo (589 633 A.D.), are published here first time Latin-English translation. Despite historical significance broader contexts, little attention has been paid to classical them evidence conflicts. Understanding these rhetorical strategies helps us perceive masked deep status, orthodoxy, persisted until invading force appeared challenge power 711 vii Table