Sumisión voluntariaestatus degradado e indiferencia de estatus en la Hispania visigoda (FV 32)
ISSN: 0213-2052
Datum der Publikation: 2007
Titel der Ausgabe: Resistencia, sumisión e interiorización de la dependencia
Nummer: 25
Seiten: 507-524
Art: Artikel
Andere Publikationen in: Studia historica. Historia antigua
Zusammenfassung
This works approaches the problematic of the status of dependent populations in the Visigothic kingdom of Toledo following the evidence offered by the Formula Wisigothica 32, in which a free man seems to voluntarily accept the degradation of his legal and social condition in exchange for a greater economic stability. Such an attitude can be understood as a real loss of the free condition of the seller in exchange for money, although some signs make us think that the appearance of submissiveness and degradation to a state of subjection can hide an agreement for a patron-client relationship which would not necessarily affect the formal legal condition of whoever is theoretically selling himself.