The Visigothic kingdom: A kingdom without Visigoths? the debate on the ethnic interpretation of the early medieval cemeteries on the Iberian Peninsula

• Christoph Eger ^[1]
  1. [1] Free University of Berlin

     Free University of Berlin

     Berlin, Stadt, Alemania

     
• 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. 173-193
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  • The years 507 and 711 frame the period of the Spanish Visigothic kingdom, although the history of the Visigoths in Spain dates back to the fifth century. The political history of the Visigoths in Spain is well known from the fifth century onwards, but we know much less from written sources about the history of the population and the settlement process. By the 1920s and 30s, researchers had already interpreted several late antique necropolises as Visigothic because they contained grave goods deposited in a specific form that distinguished them from native tombs. However, in the last twenty years, critics have taken aim at the interpretive model used.