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...

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Publicado en:	Early Medieval Europe Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 327 - 355
Autor principal:	Ungvary, David
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Wiley-Blackwell Aug2018
Materias:	Poetry (Literary form) Libel & slander Atonement Penance Eugenius II, Pope Bishops
Acceso en línea:	Ver este registro en EBSCOhost