The voice of the dead king Chindasuinth: poetry, politics, and the discourse of penance in Visigothic Spain.
Around ad 653, Eugenius II, bishop of Toledo, composed a first‐person poetic epitaph for the deceased Visigothic king Chindasuinth (r. 642–53) in which the monarch is made to speak with self‐deprecating candour. This paper offers a reassessment of the poem's language and rhetorical strategy by situa...
| Publicado en: | Early Medieval Europe Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 327 - 355 |
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