Between throne and altar: political power and episcopal authority in the beginning of the Visigothic kingdom of Toledo

• Autores: Rafael Barroso Cabrera
• 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. 295-314
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This chapter analyses the alliance between political power and the ecclesiastical hierarchy of Toledo during the reign of Theudis (531–548), within the general context of the settlement of the Visigoths in the Meseta (‘Plateau’) of the Iberian Peninsula. The consequences that this collaboration had on the promotion of Toledo from a simple diocese to the metropolitan see of the Carthaginiensis province, and subsequently primacy of Spain, are seen through the specific case of the creation of the diocese of Segovia.