Search results for ""Author Damián Fernández""
University of Pennsylvania Press Aristocrats and Statehood in Western Iberia, 300-600 C.E.
In a distant corner of the late antique world, along the Atlantic river valleys of western Iberia, local elite populations lived through the ebb and flow of empire and kingdoms as historical agents with their own social strategies. Contrary to earlier historiographical accounts, these aristocrats were not oppressed by a centralized Roman empire or its successor kingdoms; nor was there an inherent conflict between central states and local elites. Instead, Damián Fernández argues, there was an interdependency of state and local aristocracies. The upper classes embraced state projects to assert their ascendancy within their communities. By doing so, they enacted statehood at the local level, bringing state presence to the remotest corners of Iberia, both under Roman rule and during the later Suevic and Visigothic kingdoms. Aristocrats 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. This is the first study of Iberian elites that covers both the late Roman and the post-Roman periods in similar depth, and the chronological approach allows for a new perspective on social agency of late antique nobility. While the end of the Roman empire changed the political, economic, and social strategies of local aristocrats, the book also demonstrates a considerable degree of continuity that lasted until the late sixth century.
£60.30
La segunda conversión en el camino de Emaús
El pasaje del Evangelio sobre los discípulos de Emaús contiene una enseñanza especial para quienes ya llevan un tiempo siguiendo a Cristo. Con frecuencia, en esa circunstancia, el camino cristiano se presenta más arduo. Puede sobrevenir el cansancio, la tristeza, el desaliento, también en quienes se entregaron a Jesús y a sus hermanos.Los discípulos de Emaús vuelven a ser sorprendidos por la misericordia infinita del Señor y el poder transformador de su Resurrección. Y, como a ellos, Jesús nos sigue buscando a cada uno de nosotros en la crisis de la mitad de la vida, para facilitarnos una segunda conversión: de la que se sigue una nueva esperanza, la aceptación humilde de los propios dones, la alegría del amor al prójimo y la llegada de los frutos auténticos de la evangelización.
£14.34
Amsterdam University Press Rome and Byzantium in the Visigothic Kingdom: Beyond Imitatio Imperii
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 empire but also with the contemporary Iberian context, as well as the Roman past. The goal of the volume is to approach Visigothic customs not as an uncritical adoption and imitatio of contemporary Roman models (an "acculturation" model), but as unique interpretations of a common pool of symbols, practices, and institutions that formed the legacy of Rome. The contributors argue that it is necessary to reconsider the idea of imitatio imperii as a process that involved specific actors taking strategic decisions in historically contingent circumstances.
£114.00
