Local citizenships and the Visigothic kingdom

• Javier Martinez Jimenez ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Cambridge

     University of Cambridge

     Cambridge District, Reino Unido

     
• 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. 195-212
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  • In recent decades, ethnicity and ethnic identity have been one of the main issues of academic discussions of late antique and early medieval studies – including in Visigothic Iberia. Even if the tendency to correlate race and ethnicity has largely ended, the debate on the role of Goths and Romans in the Visigothic kingdom is still ongoing. Most of these discussions are based on funerary remains and how they can be interpreted, and in these contexts we find an application for comparative anthropology. However, in urban contexts there is a tendency to obviate this theoretical perspective. In this chapter I want to go beyond this duality to further develop the validity of urban identity and citizenship as a form of self-presentation outside of ethnic duality.