Clarifying the Eclipse: Ascetics, Politics, and the Poetics of Power in Post-Roman Iberia.
This essay examines a literary exchange between the Visigothic poet-king Sisebut (612-621 AD) and his scholar-bishop Isidore of Seville following an anomalous sequence of eclipses. After Sisebut commissioned a scientific treatise from Isidore on such natural phenomena, he responded to the bishop's p...
| Published in: | Vigiliae Christianae Vol. 73; no. 5; pp. 531 - 564 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2019
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