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9 - Converting the Kingdom

Politics and Conversion in Gaul and Hispania

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2024

Marta Szada
Marta Szada
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Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland
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Chapter 9 focuses on the processes of transition from a state of schism to Christian unity in Gaul and Hispania. The comparison of two councils, that of Orléans in 511 and Épaone in 517, show the lack of a uniform pattern to the organisation and enforcement of this change. The second part of the chapter is devoted to the transformation of the Visigothic kingdom begun in 589 and interpreted as a huge project, developed in close collaboration between the king and the secular and ecclesiastical elites, which laid the foundation for Christian culture in seventh-century Hispania and demonstrated the transformative power of conversion ideas in the early medieval West.

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GaulHispaniacouncil of Orléans in 511council of Épaone in 517canons of the churchchurch councilsVisigothic kingdomVisigothic conversioncouncil of Toledo in 589
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Conversion and the Contest of Creeds in Early Medieval Christianity , pp. 252 - 283
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Converting the Kingdom
  • Marta Szada, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland
  • Book: Conversion and the Contest of Creeds in Early Medieval Christianity
  • Online publication: 06 June 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009426435.010
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  • Marta Szada, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland
  • Book: Conversion and the Contest of Creeds in Early Medieval Christianity
  • Online publication: 06 June 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009426435.010
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  • Converting the Kingdom
  • Marta Szada, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland
  • Book: Conversion and the Contest of Creeds in Early Medieval Christianity
  • Online publication: 06 June 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009426435.010
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