Hispania in Late Antiquity (Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World)

660 Pages·2005·6.88 MB·English

by  Bowes

HISPANIA IN LATE ANTIQUITY
THE MEDIEVAL
AND EARLY MODERN
IBERIAN WORLD
EDITORS
LarryJ. Simon(WesternMichiganUniversity)
IsidroJ. Rivera(University ofKansas)
DonnaM. Rogers(MiddleburyCollege)
Arie Schippers(University ofAmsterdam)
GerardWiegers(RadboudUniversityNijmegen)
VOLUME 24
HISPANIA IN LATE ANTIQUITY
Current Perspectives
EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY
KIM BOWES AND MICHAEL KULIKOWSKI
BRILL
LEIDEN•BOSTON
2005
Cover illustration: Centcelles, Mosaic, Head of Good Shepherd (detail). Photo: Kim Bowes.
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ISSN 1569-1934
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ...................................................................... vii
Abbreviations .............................................................................. ix
Contributors ................................................................................ xi
Introduction ................................................................................ 1
Kim Bowes and Michael Kulikowski
PART ONE: SPANISH GOVERNMENT AND SPANISH CITIES
Introduction to Part 1
“Cities and Government in Late Antique Hispania:
Recent Advances and Future Research” ............................ 31
Michael Kulikowski
PART TWO: CHRISTIANITY AND THE CHURCH
Introduction to Part 2
“‘Genere Hispanus’: Theodosius, Spain and Nicene
Orthodoxy” ............................................................................ 77
Neil McLynn
“Heresy and Orthodoxy in Fourth-Century Hispania:
Arianism and Priscillianism” ................................................ 121
Victoria Escribano
“Angelorum participes: The Cult of the Saints in Late Antique
Spain” ...................................................................................... 151
Pedro Castillo Maldonado
“‘Un coterie espagnole pieuse’: Christian Archaeology and
Christian Communities in Fourth- and Fifth-Century
Hispania” ................................................................................ 189
Kim Bowes
vi contents
PART THREE: SPAIN AND ITS PROVINCIAL NEIGHBORS
Introduction to Part 3
“The Cantabrian Basin in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries:
From Imperial Province to Periphery” ................................ 265
Pablo C. Díaz and Luís R. Menéndez-Bueyes
“Walls in the Urban Landscape of Late Roman Spain:
Defense and Imperial Strategy” ............................................ 299
Carmen Fernández-Ochoa and Ángel Morillo
“Spain and the African Provinces in Late Antiquity” ............ 341
Javier Arce
PART FOUR: TRADE AND THE ECONOMY
Introduction to Part 4
“Hispania in the Later Roman Mediterranean:
Ceramics and Trade” ............................................................ 369
Paul Reynolds
“Coinage, Iconography and the Changing Political
Geography of Fifth-Century Hispania” ................................ 487
Fernando López Sánchez
“Villas in Hispania during the Fourth and Fifth Centuries” 519
Alexandra Chavarría Arnau
Bibliography ................................................................................ 557
Index .......................................................................................... 625
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This volume began as a conversation between two colleagues, both
working on late antique Spain and impressed by the quality of recent
work on the subject in the Iberian languages, both staggered at the
widespread ignorance of this work in the Anglophone world. It has
ended as their attempt to pay back part of their debt to a scholarly
world that has made their own work possible. The essays in this vol-
ume have been commissioned by the editors from scholars whose
work has made an important impact on the field of Spanish late
antiquity. Together, they provide a fairly representative cross-section
of the innovative work currently being produced on Spanish late
antiquity, both in Spain and outside it. The essays, in combination
with the comprehensive bibliography at the end of the book, should
offer material of interest to scholars working on many different aspects
of the late antique Mediterranean.
Articles were submitted in the language preferred by the contrib-
utor, and all translations are by the editors, working in tandem. The
aim, no doubt only intermittently achieved, was to effect the con-
sistency of tone sometimes lacking in collective volumes, particularly
those translated by many different hands; we make no claim to tech-
nical expertise as translators, but hope to have achieved more or
less idiomatic English throughout. We would like to thank Julian
Deahl and Marcella Mulder at Brill; Larry Simon, the series editor;
Humberto Rodríguez for help with the translation of technical archi-
tectural terms; the anonymous referees for their many comments and
corrections; and most of all, the contributors, whose patience and
willingness to revise their original submissions has eased the process
of bringing this volume to completion.

ABBREVIATIONS
The following abbreviations are used regularly:
AE L’année epigraphique
CCH Gonzalo Martínez Díez, ed., La colleción canónica Hispana. 5
vols. to date. Madrid, 1965–
CCSL Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina
CICM José Luis Ramírez Sádaba and Pedro Mateos Cruz, Catálogo
de las inscripciones cristianas de Mérida. Cuadernos Emeritenses
16. Mérida, 2000
CIL Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
CILA Corpus de Inscripciones Latinas de Andalucia
CLRE Roger S. Bagnall, Alan Cameron, Seth R. Schwartz, andK.A.
Worp, edd., Consuls of the Later Roman Empire. Atlanta, 1987
CSEL Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum
FHG C. Müller, ed., Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum, 1838–1851
GCS Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten Jahr-
hunderte
HEp. Hispania Epigraphica
ICERV José Vives, Inscripciones cristianas de la España romana y visigoda.
Barcelona, 1942
ICG E. Le Blant, Inscriptions chrétiennes de la Gaule. 2 vols. Paris,
1856–1865
ICK Les inscriptions funéraires chrétiennes de Carthage, 3 vols. to date
IG Inscriptiones Graecae
IHC Emil Hübner, ed., Inscriptiones Hispaniae christianae. Berlin,
1871. Supplementum. Berlin, 1901
ILER José Vives, Inscripciones latinas de la España romana. 2 vols.
Barcelona, 1971–1972
ILPG Mauricio Pastor Muñoz and Angela Mendoza Eguaras,
Inscripciones latinas de la provincia de Granada. Granada, 1987
ILS H. Dessau, ed., Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae. 3 vols. Berlin, 1892
IRC Inscriptions romaines de Catalogne, 5 vols.
IRG Corpus de Inscricións romanas de Galicia, 4 vols.
IRVT Josep Corell, Inscripcions romanes de Valentia i el seu territori.
Valencia, 1997
x abbreviations
MEC Philip Grierson, et al., edd. Medieval European Coinage. 2 vols.
to date. Cambridge, 1986–
MGH Monumenta Germaniae Historica
AA Auctores Antiquissimi
LL Leges
SRM Scriptores Rerum Merovingicarum
PL Patrologia Latina
PLS Patrologia Latina, Supplementum
RIC Roman Imperial Coinage
RIT Géza Alföldy, Die römischen Inschriften von Tarraco. Madrider
Forschungen 10. 2 volumes. Berlin
TED’A Taller Escola d’Arqueologia (Tarragona)