The traditional social and political divisions between the Late Roman and ‘Barbarian’ inhabitants of the post-Roman successor states has in the last few decades been challenged from several new angles. In this thesis, a comparative approach to the question of post-migration period urban settlement is constructed, taking into account recent scholarly research and developments. Following a short introduction broad issues such as terminology, ethnicity, historiography, cultural exchanges, and archaeological evidence are examined in the first two chapters of this work. After this the case studies of Visigothic Spain, Lombard Italy, and Merovingian Francia are presented in three respective chapters. Having looked at some of the specific details for these regions and how they illustrate some of the underlying concepts, trends, or variations in urban administration, the sixth chapter of this thesis presents the comparative approach itself. The main goal of the approach is to alter the ways in which historians perceive the processes of ethnic interactions and identity formation taking place from the mid-sixth to eighth centuries AD, and consists of six main points based upon both the earlier broader chapters, but also incorporates the specific details from the case studies as well. Ultimately it states that while each of the newly established aristocracies inherited a largely fragmentary and localized region following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century, the administrative structures and means of interaction with the Roman populace varied widely in each of the three case studies. The greatest variations were detected in how each group administered non-capital cities within their respective region, particularly the degrees to which they altered the Late Roman urban framework. This work advocates the importance of focusing on ‘the new elite and interactions with different types of cities’, rather than the traditional approach of studying their impact upon cities as a general and broad term.

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Visigothic Hispania, Islamicate al-Andalus and Christian Spain are names representing three scriptural monotheistic civilizations in Iberia. Al-Andalus has stood apart from this list by representing a time and a place of convivencia in which Christians, Jews and Muslims cooperated and coexisted. Why and how the Islamicate civilization in al-Andalus differed from the Visigoths or the Spanish, despite all three sharing a religious orientation is an historical puzzle. By exploring the legal status of Jews within the legal regimes of Christian Rome and Visigothic Hispania, this thesis will suggest that it is cosmopolitanism and its converse exclusivism that best explain concepts of convivencia or coexistence in the face of religious diversity.

Este estudo tem como objetivo investigar a incorporação dos modelos femininos cristãos católicos de Eva e Maria nas legislações ibéricas, visigoda e afonsina, através da análise da Leges Visigothorum, do Fuero Real e das Siete Partidas. Para isso, a pesquisa está dividida em quatro capítulos. O primeiro deles versa sobre os visigodos, no qual é apresentado o processo de formação do conjunto normativo de moldes romanos que os regia, assim como a importância do aspecto religioso para a sociedade visigótica e a relação entre religião e legislação presente nesta. O foco do segundo capítulo, por sua vez, é Afonso X, rei de Leão e Castela na segunda metade do século XIII, e a legislação elaborada em seu reinado. O terceiro capítulo tem como objeto de estudo os modelos bíblicos femininos de Eva e Maria, os quais eram incentivados e difundidos pela Igreja Católica como parâmetro para classificar o comportamento da mulher. No quarto capítulo é realizada a análise quantitativa e qualitativa das fontes trabalhadas a fim de verificar de que modo os referidos modelos de comportamento feminino são encontrados nestas. / The objective of this study was to investigate the Christian Catholic female role models of Eve and Mary’s incorporation in the Iberic legislation, Visigothic and Alfonsine’s, through the analyses of the Leges Visigothorum, the Fuero Real, and the Siete Partidas. In order to accomplish this task, the research has been divided into four chapters. The first chapter focuses on the Visigothic historical process of creating a Code of Law following the framework developed by the Romans, as well as the importance of Religion for the Visigothic society and the strong existing relationship between religion and legislation. The second chapter focuses on Alfonso X, king of Castilla and Leon during the second half of the 13th century, and the legislation that was draw up during his reign. The third chapter focuses on the study of the biblical female role models of Eve and Mary, which were encouraged and disseminated by the Catholic Church as a parameter to classify woman’s behavior. Finally, the fourth chapter gives a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the sources used in order to verify the previously mentioned female role models.

Este estudo tem como objetivo investigar a incorporação dos modelos femininos cristãos católicos de Eva e Maria nas legislações ibéricas, visigoda e afonsina, através da análise da Leges Visigothorum, do Fuero Real e das Siete Partidas. Para isso, a pesquisa está dividida em quatro capítulos. O primeiro deles versa sobre os visigodos, no qual é apresentado o processo de formação do conjunto normativo de moldes romanos que os regia, assim como a importância do aspecto religioso para a sociedade visigótica e a relação entre religião e legislação presente nesta. O foco do segundo capítulo, por sua vez, é Afonso X, rei de Leão e Castela na segunda metade do século XIII, e a legislação elaborada em seu reinado. O terceiro capítulo tem como objeto de estudo os modelos bíblicos femininos de Eva e Maria, os quais eram incentivados e difundidos pela Igreja Católica como parâmetro para classificar o comportamento da mulher. No quarto capítulo é realizada a análise quantitativa e qualitativa das fontes trabalhadas a fim de verificar de que modo os referidos modelos de comportamento feminino são encontrados nestas. / The objective of this study was to investigate the Christian Catholic female role models of Eve and Mary’s incorporation in the Iberic legislation, Visigothic and Alfonsine’s, through the analyses of the Leges Visigothorum, the Fuero Real, and the Siete Partidas. In order to accomplish this task, the research has been divided into four chapters. The first chapter focuses on the Visigothic historical process of creating a Code of Law following the framework developed by the Romans, as well as the importance of Religion for the Visigothic society and the strong existing relationship between religion and legislation. The second chapter focuses on Alfonso X, king of Castilla and Leon during the second half of the 13th century, and the legislation that was draw up during his reign. The third chapter focuses on the study of the biblical female role models of Eve and Mary, which were encouraged and disseminated by the Catholic Church as a parameter to classify woman’s behavior. Finally, the fourth chapter gives a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the sources used in order to verify the previously mentioned female role models.

Este estudo tem como objetivo investigar a incorporação dos modelos femininos cristãos católicos de Eva e Maria nas legislações ibéricas, visigoda e afonsina, através da análise da Leges Visigothorum, do Fuero Real e das Siete Partidas. Para isso, a pesquisa está dividida em quatro capítulos. O primeiro deles versa sobre os visigodos, no qual é apresentado o processo de formação do conjunto normativo de moldes romanos que os regia, assim como a importância do aspecto religioso para a sociedade visigótica e a relação entre religião e legislação presente nesta. O foco do segundo capítulo, por sua vez, é Afonso X, rei de Leão e Castela na segunda metade do século XIII, e a legislação elaborada em seu reinado. O terceiro capítulo tem como objeto de estudo os modelos bíblicos femininos de Eva e Maria, os quais eram incentivados e difundidos pela Igreja Católica como parâmetro para classificar o comportamento da mulher. No quarto capítulo é realizada a análise quantitativa e qualitativa das fontes trabalhadas a fim de verificar de que modo os referidos modelos de comportamento feminino são encontrados nestas. / The objective of this study was to investigate the Christian Catholic female role models of Eve and Mary’s incorporation in the Iberic legislation, Visigothic and Alfonsine’s, through the analyses of the Leges Visigothorum, the Fuero Real, and the Siete Partidas. In order to accomplish this task, the research has been divided into four chapters. The first chapter focuses on the Visigothic historical process of creating a Code of Law following the framework developed by the Romans, as well as the importance of Religion for the Visigothic society and the strong existing relationship between religion and legislation. The second chapter focuses on Alfonso X, king of Castilla and Leon during the second half of the 13th century, and the legislation that was draw up during his reign. The third chapter focuses on the study of the biblical female role models of Eve and Mary, which were encouraged and disseminated by the Catholic Church as a parameter to classify woman’s behavior. Finally, the fourth chapter gives a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the sources used in order to verify the previously mentioned female role models.