- bronisch@gmx.de
- Studies at the universities of Konstanz, Regensburg and Madrid (Universidad Complutense). PhD 1996 in Konstanz. Focus... moreStudies at the universities of Konstanz, Regensburg and Madrid (Universidad Complutense). PhD 1996 in Konstanz. Focus of investigations: Iberian medieval history from the 6th to the 13th century. Attendance at several internacional congresses in Germany, France, Spain, Portugal and Mexico.edit
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Policy against baptised Jews shows both cooperation and dissension between Visigothic kings and high Spanish Gothic clergy. Depending on the political circumstances, sometimes was the high clergy that took the initiative forcing the... more
Policy against baptised Jews shows both cooperation and dissension between Visigothic kings and high Spanish Gothic clergy. Depending on the political circumstances, sometimes was the high clergy that took the initiative forcing the respective king to accept their propositions, and sometimes were the kings who forced the assembly of the ecclesiastical councils to take decisions that were inconsistent with the ideas of the Church. But kings and clergy agreed upon a common aim of their different proposals and measures: they wanted to ensure that baptised Jews behaved like good Christians to avoid God’s wrath that, according to their ideas rooted in the Old Testament, could provoke even the ruin of the realm.
Research Interests:
After decades of discussion, historians have not yet managed to come to a generally accepted definition of the term “holy war.” There are several points of view, which can be classified into five groups: 1. the understanding of “holy war”... more
After decades of discussion, historians have not yet managed to come to a generally accepted definition of the term “holy war.” There are several points of view, which can be classified into five groups: 1. the understanding of “holy war” as a war in which religion has the function of a specific cause; 2. critics of this position who fail to provide their own concise definition of “holy war”; 3. those who see holy wars from the perspective of just war theory; 4. others who define “holy war” as a war fought in the service of the Papacy; and, finally, 5. all those who seem to assume that a consensus about the meaning of this term already exists. In this article, the author’s definition, elaborated in a monograph on the significance of war in medieval Spain, is briefly presented. The Iberian Visigothic and Asturian-Leonese examples demonstrate that the author’s definition is suitable for explaining contemporaries’ ideas about the significance of war within the then-existing cosmovision. The author shows that the Iberian circumstances seem to be quite similar to the almost-simultaneous Byzantine understanding of war. Accordingly, some scholars on Byzantine warfare come to more or less to the same conclusion as proposed in this article and have had to face the same objections of their fellow scholars.
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
RefDoc Refdoc est un service / is powered by. ...
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Isidore de Seville and Julian of Toledo, each in a particular political context, were the two historiographers who used the term Hispania as a synonym for the kingdom of Toledo. This innovation did not come to replace the traditional... more
Isidore de Seville and Julian of Toledo, each in a particular political context, were the two historiographers who used the term Hispania as a synonym for the kingdom of Toledo. This innovation did not come to replace the traditional established formula rex, gens vel patria Gothorum used in official documents to define what we nowadays would call the state. Nevertheless Isidore and Julian’s term had an important influence on the development of their contemporaries’ understanding of the relationship between God, the king and his people. This concept was so strong that it influenced important decisions within the church and the monarchy. In Asturian times it even served as a means of explaining the destruction of the Visigothic kingdom. One can observe in Asturian historiography that this term was frequently used in the older parts of the chronicles, whilst in the newer ones from the end of the 9th and beginning of the 10th century its influence can hardly be detected. Hispania changed from being a term for the lost kingdom of the Goths – that had included the whole Iberian peninsula – into an synonym exclusively for the region dominated by Muslims.
Research Interests:
The Chronicle of Alfonso III contains in its first section some historical news about the Kingdom of Toledo that could be summarized as "the wickedness of the family of Witiza". This Information has ever since determined our perception of... more
The Chronicle of Alfonso III contains in its first section some historical news about the Kingdom of Toledo that could be summarized as "the wickedness of the family of Witiza". This Information has ever since determined our perception of the final decades of the Visigothic kingdom. Some of this Information is examined more precisely in this paper: the poisoning of King Wamba, the succession and legislation by King Ervig, the repudiation of Egica's spouse Cixilo and the mention that King Witiza was a son of Cixilo. As this paper renders plausible, it is highly uncertain that each of these reports should reflect historical facts. It does seem, however, that all of these elements constitute a comprehensive polemic against King Ervig, his alleged grandson King Witiza and his sons, especially the so-called Bishop Oppa accused of collaborating with the Saracens.
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
The idea of what we call Holy War is not a phenomenon sui generis, but part of a wider cosmovision. Sometimes, in certain political circunstances, it is stressed, sometimes it almost sinks into oblivion. The examples of the iberian... more
The idea of what we call Holy War is not a phenomenon sui generis, but part of a wider cosmovision. Sometimes, in certain political circunstances, it is stressed, sometimes it almost sinks into oblivion. The examples of the iberian christian realms demonstrate the special character of the circle of ideas developped in hispanogothic times and the situations when Holy War as part of this bundle of ideas was used as an instrument for the political propaganda.
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Las presentes jornadas de carácter internacional recogen el resultado de la investigación del segundo año de ejecución del proyecto I+D Violencia religiosa en la Edad Media peninsular: guerra, discurso apologético y relato historiográfico... more
Las presentes jornadas de carácter
internacional recogen el resultado de
la investigación del segundo año de
ejecución del proyecto I+D Violencia religiosa
en la Edad Media peninsular: guerra,
discurso apologético y relato historiográfico
(ss. X-XV) HAR2016-74968-P. La
investigación se ha centrado en la relación
de memoria histórica e historiografía, y
es que hoy día está fuera de toda duda la
importancia que tiene la perpetuación de la
memoria – creada y recreada en los sucesivos
momentos de evolución cultural - como
marco de intelección historiográfica. Nuestro
análisis se centra en la idea y concepto de
Reconquista. Estamos, sin duda, ante uno de
los constructos más operativos de cuantos
han animado, en el solar peninsular, la
confrontación entre cristianos y musulmanes.
Intentaremos clarificar perspectivas y
fundamentar hipótesis en relación con un
tema tan manido como necesitado de una
seria valoración historiográfica que permita
resituarlo en el lugar que le corresponde
como muy efectivo discurso justificador. Y
en este sentido, tendremos muy presente
las dos tradiciones, cristiana e islámica, en
confrontación, analizando las respectivas
estrategias ideológicas en torno a la narrativa reconquistadora.
internacional recogen el resultado de
la investigación del segundo año de
ejecución del proyecto I+D Violencia religiosa
en la Edad Media peninsular: guerra,
discurso apologético y relato historiográfico
(ss. X-XV) HAR2016-74968-P. La
investigación se ha centrado en la relación
de memoria histórica e historiografía, y
es que hoy día está fuera de toda duda la
importancia que tiene la perpetuación de la
memoria – creada y recreada en los sucesivos
momentos de evolución cultural - como
marco de intelección historiográfica. Nuestro
análisis se centra en la idea y concepto de
Reconquista. Estamos, sin duda, ante uno de
los constructos más operativos de cuantos
han animado, en el solar peninsular, la
confrontación entre cristianos y musulmanes.
Intentaremos clarificar perspectivas y
fundamentar hipótesis en relación con un
tema tan manido como necesitado de una
seria valoración historiográfica que permita
resituarlo en el lugar que le corresponde
como muy efectivo discurso justificador. Y
en este sentido, tendremos muy presente
las dos tradiciones, cristiana e islámica, en
confrontación, analizando las respectivas
estrategias ideológicas en torno a la narrativa reconquistadora.
Research Interests:
Como primer fruto del proyecto I+D "Violencia religiosa en la Edad Media peninsular: guerra, discurso apologético y relato historiográfico (ss. X-XV)" fue publicado este volumen de estudios dedicados a la praxis de la guerra y el lenguaje... more
Como primer fruto del proyecto I+D "Violencia religiosa en la Edad Media peninsular: guerra, discurso apologético y relato historiográfico (ss. X-XV)" fue publicado este volumen de estudios dedicados a la praxis de la guerra y el lenguaje que adopta en ella la violencia religiosa.
El libro atiende al específico protagonismo humano en las distintas acciones bélicas de contenido sacral, en las sucesivas fases que corresponden al marco cronológico del encuentro, así como el análisis comparado de ese mismo protagonismo entre las dos tradiciones, cristiana e islámica, en confrontación.
El libro atiende al específico protagonismo humano en las distintas acciones bélicas de contenido sacral, en las sucesivas fases que corresponden al marco cronológico del encuentro, así como el análisis comparado de ese mismo protagonismo entre las dos tradiciones, cristiana e islámica, en confrontación.