Visigothic Symposium 4, 2020-2021: Manuscripts and Editions (pdf) (*En Español aquí; En Português aquí)

The Liber Iudiciorum or the Lex Visigothorum? The Origines or the Etymologies? De Origines Officiorum or De Ecclesiasticis Officiis? De Origine Gothorum or Historia Gothorum? Should we refer to Recceswinth’s code of 653 in the same vein as its revisions, or of Isidore’s origines as constitutive of his historical oeuvre? Was there a Toledan revision of Isidore’s histories in the early 630s? Were Isidore’s Sententiae the immediate product of a lifetime of thought or the culmination of decades of deep contemplation and revision? What happened at the Third Council of Seville, and why is only its echo recorded? To what extent did scribal work on the conciliar subscriptions alter our ability to uncover the true relationship between participants and their networks? Which is the Liber referred to by the anonymous chronicler of 754, that is, which record of the Iberian councils, the so-called Hispana, and could that have shaped her or his historical determinations? Why was Helladius impossibly made the author of a hagiography about his later successor Ildefonsus and what was the historical effect of this?

Scribes and editors play a massive role in the infinite project that is history-writing, providing historians with the very language by which we can interpret the past. Working from a selection of manuscripts and editions of Visigothic texts, the contributions in VgS 4 discuss, on the one hand, the issues and questions that we – as historians and philologists, and as editors – deal with when confronting as sources, manuscripts and editions, and their scripts, materialities, performances, etc. On the other hand, essays evaluate the choices of previous editors, from the sixteenth-century forward, and propose new theses on how those decisions affect our understanding of the history of late antique and early medieval Iberia.

ISSN 2475-7462

Editors: Dolores Castro & Michael J. Kelly

Program

Panel 1: Manuscripts

• Julia Aguilar Miquel, PhD Candidate, Classical Philology Department, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  • Basel: Center for the Dissemination of Taio Caesaraugustanus’s Sententiae in the 15th Century, pp. 1-17

• Graham Barrett,Senior Lecturer, School of History and Heritage, University of Lincoln
  • The Text of Visigothic Law in Practice, pp. 18-63

• Ainoa Castro Correa,Lecturer in Manuscript Studies and History of the Church-ERC StG Researcher, Departamento de Historia Medieval, Moderna y Contemporánea, Universidad de Salamanca
  • Towards a Review of the “Visigothic Symptoms”: Formal Writing in Visigothic Hispania, pp. 64-84

• Robert Kasperski,Associate Professor and Member of Faculty, Department of Medieval Studies, Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
  • Was there a Revision of Isidore’s Histories in the early 630s?, pp. 85-99

• Evina Steinova,Junior Researcher, Dutch Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam
  • The Oldest Manuscript Tradition of the Etymologiae (eighty years after A. E. Anspach), pp. 100-143

Panel 2: Editions

• Dolores Castro and Michael J. Kelly, Postdoctoral Fellow, Universidad de Buenos Aires, and Visiting Assistant Professor, Judaic Studies, Binghamton University (SUNY)
  • Isidore’s Sententiae, the Liber Iudiciorum, and Paris BnF Lat. 4667, pp. 144-168

• Rebecca Maloy, Professor of Musicology, University of Colorado Boulder
  • Receiving and Reshaping Scripture in the Visigothic Liturgy, pp. 169-190

• Elena Marey, Faculty, National Research University, Moscow
  • Intellectual Communication between Rome and Spain: Judge and Judgment in Gregory the Great’s Moralia in Job and Taio of Zaragoza’s Sententiae, pp. 191-205

• Kenneth Baxter Wolf, Professor of History, Professor of Classics, and Chair of Classics, Pomona College
  • Immortalizing the “Martyrs of Córdoba:” A Tale of Two Centuries, pp. 206-227

• Reed Johnston Morgan, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University
  • Communal Cultures of Knowledge: The Practice and Performance of Editing in Visigothic Iberia, pp. 228-255

Schedule of Publication
Autumn 2021 – Response Papers (2,000-2,500 words)