{"product_id":"aristocrats-and-statehood-in-western-iberia-300600-c-e-9780812249460","title":"Aristocrats and Statehood in Western Iberia","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAristocrats and Statehood in Western Iberia, 300-600 C.E. combines archaeological and literary sources to reconstruct the history of late antique Iberian aristocracies, facilitating the study of a social class that has proved elusive when approached through the lens of a single type of evidence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAristocrats and Statehood in Western Iberia, 300–600 C.E\u003c\/i\u003e is to be welcomed by historians and archaeologists wishing to acquaint themselves with a detailed and intellectually stimulating account of developments in what is still, in relative terms, a historiographically marginal area… [I]n a world in which so many history books are restatements of (frequently exhausted) positions, it is refreshing to encounter a book that makes such a striking contribution to a subject of perennial interest.\" * Early Medieval Europe *\u003cbr\u003e\"A very timely and wide-ranging work that makes an important and original argument that the local elite were crucial to the day-to-day operation of the state in western Iberia in both the late Roman and post-Roman periods. It is theoretically sophisticated, very well researched, and the argument is substantiated by reference to a wealth of literary, epigraphic, and, especially, archaeological evidence, much of which is not generally known outside specialist circles.\" * Jonathan Edmondson, York University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. An Invisible Class in a Silent Land\u003cbr\u003e PART I. WESTERN IBERIAN ARISTOCRACIES IN THE LATE ROMAN EMPIRE\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. In the Shadow of Empire: Settlement and Society in the Late Roman Period\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. An Unprovincial Aristocracy: Aristocratic Identity in a Renewed Empire\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Economic Strategies in a Renewed Empire: Aristocratic Economic Units in the Late Roman Period\u003cbr\u003e PART II. WESTERN IBERIAN ARISTOCRACIES IN THE POST-ROMAN WORLD\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Adapting to a New World: Post-Roman Settlement in Western Iberia\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Crafting Fragmented Statehood: Aristocratic Identity in the Post-Roman World\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Preserving Wealth in a Changing World: Post-Roman Aristocratic Economic Strategies\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405731242327,"sku":"9780812249460","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812249460.jpg?v=1730493429","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/aristocrats-and-statehood-in-western-iberia-300600-c-e-9780812249460","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}