Isidore of Seville and the Liber Iudiciorum: The Struggle for the Past in the Visigothic Kingdom

In Isidore of Seville and the “Liber Iudiciorum,” the author re-interprets the meaning and “function” of the seventh-century Visigothic law-code, the Liber Iudiciorum within the context of the cooperative competition of history-writing between nodes of power in Seville and Toledo.