The regnal years of Amalaric: revisiting the sources

Santos, Bruno Marques dos

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The regnal years of Amalaric: revisiting the sources

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dc.contributor.author	Santos, Bruno Marques dos
dc.date.accessioned	2025-03-25T19:07:32Z
dc.date.embargo	2027
dc.date.issued	2023
dc.description.abstract	In 511, Amalaric, who was still a child, became king of the Visigoths, with the Ostrogothic king Theoderic acting as his senior king or his regent. Almost all modern researchers claim that this situation did not change until Theoderic’s death in 526. However, this means dismissing as incorrect the information transmitted by the acta of the Second Council of Toledo of 527: the bishops date the Council to the fifth year of Amalaric’s reign, which would place his accession in 522/3. In this paper, I reconsider the chronology of Amalaric’s reign before Theoderic’s death. For this purpose, I revisit the relevant source material and the textual problems surrounding the Second Council of Toledo. I argue that Amalaric must have been promoted in some way in 522/3 and look at the contemporary political situation in Italy to make a tentative reconstruction of the events.	pt_PT
dc.description.sponsorship	Volumen realizado con la contribución del proyecto de investigación «Lexicon Latinitatis Medii Aevi Regni Legionis, s. VIII-1230» (PID2019-107276GB-I00/AEI/10.13039/ 501100011033), subvencionado por la Agencia Estatal de Investigación del Gobierno de España	pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citation	Marques dos Santos, Bruno. "The Regnal Years of Amalaric: revisiting the sources" in La Latinidad Medieval. Estudios Hispánicos 2022, eds. E. Pérez Rodríguez, et A. Alonso Guardo, 539-58. Firenze: SISMEL, 2023.	pt_PT
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-9290-284-8
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-9290-291-6
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/99727
dc.language.iso	eng	pt_PT
dc.peerreviewed	yes	pt_PT
dc.publisher	SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo	pt_PT
dc.relation.ispartofseries	mediEVI; 40
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://www.mirabileweb.it/edgalluzzo/saggi/m/1296/s/6313	pt_PT
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	pt_PT
dc.subject	Amalaric	pt_PT
dc.subject	Theoderic the Great	pt_PT
dc.subject	Succession	pt_PT
dc.subject	Second Council of Toledo	pt_PT
dc.subject	Visigoths	pt_PT
dc.title	The regnal years of Amalaric: revisiting the sources	pt_PT
dc.type	book part
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oaire.citation.endPage	558	pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage	539	pt_PT
oaire.citation.title	La latinidad medieval: Estudios hispánicos 2022	pt_PT
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person.givenName	Bruno
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