Beyond central and local powers: the general councils of Toledo and the politics of integration

• Paulo Pacha ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

     Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

     Brasil

     
• Localización: The Visigothic kingdom: the negotiation of power in Post-Roman Iberia / Sabine Panzram (ed. lit.), Paulo Pachá (ed. lit.), 2020, ISBN 978-94-6372-063-2, págs. 101-116
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The problem of political integration is one of the most pressing questions of the history of the Visigothic kingdom of Toledo. Historians have traditionally framed it as a structural opposition between the monarchy and the nobility; in the last decade, however, some authors have begun to conceptualize it as an array of more complex dynamics between central and local powers. In this contribution, I will argue that we must go beyond the concepts of central and local powers and focus on their power relations – their integration. To achieve this objective, I will analyse how these relationships developed in the context of the general councils of the Visigothic church, an institution that had a central and determinant place in the process of political integration.