Breve historia de los godos

In Brief History of the Goths, we cover several centuries and thousands of kilometers of cultural symbioses, wars, political and ideological constructions and, above all, a valiant effort to integrate into the Roman world, first as allies and then as successors and heirs of the culture of the Empire in the two kingdoms they built in Italy and Hispania. Little to do with the legendary image of cruelty and barbarism. The first soon disappeared, but the second, the Hispanogothic, or Visigothic, kingdom of Toledo, became the most complex and Romanized in the West, with intellectuals of the stature of Isidore of Seville and legislation that lasted for centuries. Fermín Miranda-García makes us see clearly how the kingdoms of Italy and Hispania that the Ostrogoths and Visigoths built assumed the continuity of the Roman without denying the singularity of the German, and that implied both maintaining the great lines of thought and institutionalization of Christian Rome how to inherit their deep weaknesses and shortcomings. The Hispano-Gothic kingdom of Toledo could dazzle the West with the chronicles of Juan de Bíclaro, the thought of Isidore of Seville or the legislation of Liber Iudicum, but it was incapable of organizing a system of succession, of controlling noble struggles or of facing the problems together. dangers that could come from outside.