Algunas consideraciones sobre el ceremonial y el poder político en la Mérida visigoda
ISSN: 0213-2052
Year of publication: 2002
Issue Title: La ciudad en el mundo antiguo
Issue: 20
Pages: 245-264
Type: Article
More publications in: Studia historica. Historia antigua
Abstract
The present work aims to show the strict relation existing between the monarchic government authorities and those defining the highest levels of the Catholic hierarchy regarding the justifyng ideology of power in Visigothic Merida. Both Government and Church officcials had common models that they applied symbolically in the rites and ceremonies they adopted and that they also used in their confrontations and/or alliances.