Clarifying the Eclipse: Ascetics, Politics, and the Poetics of Power in Post-Roman Iberia
This essay examines a literary exchange between the Visigothic poet-king Sisebut (612-621 AD) and his scholar-bishop Isidore of Seville following an anomalous sequence of eclipses. After Sisebut commissioned a scientific treatise from Isidore on such natural phenomena, he responded to the bishop�...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2019]
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| In: |
Vigiliae Christianae
Year: 2019, Volume: 73, Issue: 5, Pages: 531-563 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture CG Christianity and Politics KAD Church history 500-900; early Middle Ages KBH Iberian Peninsula KCA Monasticism; religious orders |
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Latin poetry
B early medieval politics B Isidore of Seville B Visigothic Kingdom B Asceticism B Sisebut |
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