Visigothic Literature

Estudio de parte de las obras de Isidoro de Sevilla. Publicado en La trasmissione dei testi latini del Medioevo. Mediaeval Latin Texts and their Transmission. Te.Tra. 2, P. Chiesa.-L. Castaldi (edd.), Firenze, Sismel-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2005 (Millennio medievale, 57; Strumenti e Studi, n.s. 10), pp. 274-417 (en colaboración con C. Codoñer y Mª. A. Andrés Sanz).

This paper summarizes the literary culture of the Iberian Peninsula from the beginning of the VIth Century until the Arab invasion in 711. The scholar doesn’t just study the Visigothic literature (prose writings and poems), he considers also other works as inscriptions and Visigothic slates, councils and laws.

This article provides an overview of the Latin and Greek Christian writers known in the Visigothic Spain during the sixth and seventh centuries. It also offers a detailed inventory of the works of Patristic literature used by Visigoths writers and the texts of these authors in which these sources can be found.

b) Isidore de Séville (†636) est l’auteur d’une Chronique Universelle et une Histoire des Goths, Suèves et Vandales, qui sont arrivées jusqu’à nos jours dans deux rédactions du même auteur. Avec ces œuvres, rédigées très vraisemblablement sur commande royale de Sisebut (612-621), Isidore a voulu exalter l’idée de la nation hispano-gothique d’Hispania. Cet article inclut aussi la première traduction complète en espagnol des deux rédactions de la Chronique Universelle d’Isidore.

The Epistulae Wisigothicae are a collection of eighteen letters written between the last quarter of VIth Century and the early years of VIIth. Its authors are both ecclesiastical (a monk, a bishop and a third ecclesiastical author unknown), and civil (king Sisebut, count Bulgar and Byzantine patrician Cesareo). His Latin is a very difficult and has not been subject to any case study. This article examines the main characteristics of the language of these letters, grouped into four main sections: ortography and phonetics, morphology, syntax and semantics.

This paper offers the first critical edition of Sermo de s. Vincentio (CPL 1092) of Justus of Urgel (VIth Century). This edition is based on the study of all surviving manuscripts: Lérida, Archivo Capitular, Roda 35 and Barcelona, Biblioteca de Cataluña 729-V and 729-VII. Spanish translation is added. Publicado en colaboración con Salvador Iranzo Abellán.

En este artículo se estudian los procedimientos, especialmente los de estilo y los relacionados con los tópicos bíblicos y de vidas de santos, de los que se sirve Sisebuto para caracterizar a los dos antagonistas principales que sostienen el conflicto que nos plantea en su obra: San Desiderio y los reyes Teodorico y Brunequilda. La conclusión es que la Vita Desiderii responde perfectamente a los tópicos esperables de la hagiografía.

Estudio de la tradición manuscrita de las obras de Braulio de Zaragoza. Publicado en La trasmissione dei testi latini del Medioevo. Mediaeval Latin Texts and their Transmission. Te.Tra. 1, P. Chiesa.-L. Castaldi (edd.), Firenze, Sismel-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2004 (Millennio medievale, 50; Strumenti e Studi, n.s. 8), pp. 38-52.

Estudio de la tradición manuscrita de las obras del rey visigodo Sisebuto de Toledo. Publicado en La trasmissione dei testi latini del Medioevo. Mediaeval Latin Texts and their Transmission. Te.Tra. 1, P. Chiesa.-L. Castaldi (edd.), Firenze, Sismel-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2004 (Millennio medievale, 50; Strumenti e Studi, n.s. 8), pp. 402-410.

This paper presents the authors and writings cited by Isidore of Seville in his De uiris illustribus and study the use of them made by the bishop of Seville in the rest of his works. The conclusion is that the catalog of illustrious men is one of the oldest works of Isidore or perhaps the oldest.

This paper offers the first scientific reconstruction, founded on the analysis of the manuscript tradition, of the Antikeimena (CPL 1261) of Julian of Toledo († 690), an exegetical treatise. It also contains the first translation of this work with the list of all sources, biblical and patristic. Publicado en Helmántica 62 (2011) nº 187, pp. 7-242.

In this paper, the scholar studies the most significant particularities in the morphology, syntax and semantic of Isidore of Seville’s Chronica Maiora (CPL 1205). In spite of some grammatical usages typical of the time, as plural nominative of the first declension in «  as », prepositions « ad » and « in » with ablative indicating direction in the space, or adjectives « proprius » and « suus » meaning « omnis » and « totus », respectively, in general, the isidorian language is very close to classical Latin.

Estudio de la tradición manuscrita de parte de las obras del obispo visigodo Julián de Toledo. Publicado en La trasmissione dei testi latini del Medioevo. Mediaeval Latin Texts and their Transmission. Te.Tra. 3, P. Chiesa.-L. Castaldi (edd.), Firenze, Sismel-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2008 (Millennio medievale, 75; Strumenti e Studi, n.s. 18), pp. 373-431 (en colaboración con J. Elfassi).

This paper offers the editio princeps of two medieval works about the passion of St Zoilus of Cordoba under Diocletian, and the invention and tranfer of his relics in VIIth Century. One of them is transmitted by Madrid, Biblioteca de la Real Academia de la Historia, 9, and the second one by Leon, Archivo de la Catedral, 52. The scholar surveys also the relations between these stories and the work of Rodolfo de Carrion about Zoilus of Cordoba transmitted in Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, 11556.

The scholar shows in this paper the special use of temporal and local aspects made by Sisebut in his hagiographical work. Sisebut avoids all local or temporal information in order to concentrate his tale in Desiderius’ holiness and passion and in the pursuers’ guilt and punishment. This method is characteristic of hagiography and shows the inclusion of this work in that genre.

In this paper, the scholar compares two hagiographic works belonging to VII century: Vita Desiderii (BHL 2148) of Sisebut and Passio Desiderii (BHL 2149) of an unknown Merovingian author. The scolar tries to prove that the Merovingian author knew Sisebut's work from which he took some loans. The differences between these two works are explained by their different purposes