Historia de regibus Gothorum, Vandalorum et Suevorum
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The Historia de regibus Gothorum, Vandalorum et Suevorum ("History of the Kings of the Goths, Vandals and Suevi") is a
Suevi
.
Isidore begins his history with a prologue, Laus Spaniae, praising the virtues of
Maximus of Zaragoza
. For events in Spain between 590 and 624 Isidore is the modern historian's primary source.
The Historia was composed in two versions, both surviving. The first, completed probably in 619, the year of the death of king
Suinthila. Only the longer version contains the Laus Spaniae and the Laus Gothorum, a eulogy of the Goths, which divides the Goths' history (to the reign of Suinthila) from that of the Vandals. The edition of the longer version by Theodor Mommsen is the standard[2] and was the basis of the first English translation.[3] The Historia was previously translated into German.[4]
References
- ^ For an analysis of the Laus Spaniae, see Andrew H. Merrills, History and Geography in Late Antiquity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 185–96. Note that before the union of Aragon and Castile in 1479, the Latin word Hispania, in any of the Iberian Romance languages, either in singular or plural forms (in English: Spain or Spains), was often used to refer to the whole of the Iberian Peninsula, and not exclusively, as in modern usage, to the country of Spain, which excludes Andorra, Gibraltar and Portugal.
- Jacques-Paul Migne, Patrologia Latina, 83, col. 1057 (Paris: 1844–55).
- ^ Guido Donini and Gordon B. Ford, Jr., translators. Isidore of Seville's History of the Kings of the Goths, Vandals, and Suevi (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1966).
- ^ D. Coste, trans. Isidors Geschichte der Goten, Vandalen, Sueven (Leipzig: 1910).