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