Late Antiquity Merida: the apotheosis of a Christian city

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作者
Diaz, Pablo C. [1 ]
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[1] Univ Salamanca, E-37008 Salamanca, Spain
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RETI MEDIEVALI RIVISTA | 2010年 / 11卷 / 02期
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Late Antiquity; V-VIth Centuries; Merida; Hagiography; Visigothic kingdom;
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I [文学]; K [历史、地理];
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05 ; 06 ;
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Merida, see of the Vicar of Hispania during the Late Empire, represents the best known case in the Iberian Peninsula of the transformation of a pagan city into a Christian city. Despite the lack of referential centralised powers during Vth and most of VIth century, Merida succeeded in preserving its preeminence within the Lusitanian province, while its bishop set himselp up as the metropolitan bishop with an ascendant even outside the province boundaries. An hagiographic text, the Vitae sanctorum patrum emeretensium, shows us the political, social and economical vitality of the town at the end of VIth century, and also the preponderance of the religious instances on public life, in which the basilica of Saint Eulalia, patron saint of the city, turns into the centre around which the everyday sociability revolves.
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