Database: Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (CHAP)

Title(s):

History of the Goths
Historia Wandalorum, Sueborum et Gothorum
(Historia Wandalorum, Sueborum et Gothorum, History of the Vandals, Suevi and Goths)
De origine Gotorum et gestis
(De origine Gotorum et gestis, On the origins of the Goths and their deeds)
De origine Gothorum et regno sueborum et etiam Wandalorum historia liber unus
(De origine Gothorum et regno Sueborum et etiam Wandalorum historia liber unus, On the origins of the Goths and the rule of the Suevi and also the Vandals, a history in one book)

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Period covered:

265-624

Language:

Latin

State of Preservation:

Full

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Remarks:

From the manuscript tradition, two versions have been reconstructed, a briefer (dated to 621) and a longer one (dated to 624/626).

Edition - Translation:

T. Mommsen (1894) Chronica minora saec. IV.V.VI.VII. Volume Two (Monumenta Germaniae historica: Auctores antiquissimi, 11). Berlin: 267-303.
G. Donini, G.B. Jr. Ford (1966) (tr.) Isidore of Seville's History of the kings of the Goths, Vandals, and Suevi. Leiden.
C. Rodríguez Alonso Rodríguez Alonso (1975) Las Historias de los godos, vándalos y suevos de Isidore de Sevilla (Fuentes y estudios de historia leonesa, 13). Leon.
K.B. Wolf (1999) Conquerers and chroniclers of early medieval Spain (Translated texts for historians, 9). Liverpool.

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J. Wood (2012) The politics of identity in Visigoth Spain: Religion and power in the histories of Isidor of Seville (Brill's series on the early Middle Ages, 21). Leiden.
(1995) Clavis patrum Latinorum (CPL) 1204
P. Chiesa, L. Castaldi (2005) La trasmissione dei testi latini del Medioevo: Mediaeval Latin texts and their transmission. Volume Two (Millennio medievale, 57). Florence: 370-379.
R. Furtado (2014) 'In how many ways can a text be written? The textual tradition of Isidore's Histories'. In: Wisigothica: After M.C. Díaz y Díaz, ed. C. Codoñer - P. Farmhouse Alberto. Turnhout: 421-476.
S. Ghosh (2016) Writing the barbarian past: Studies in early medieval historical narrative. Leiden.
I. Velázquez (2015) 'Revisiones de autor y de copistas en las obras de Isidoro de Sevilla: A propósito de la Historia Gothorum'. Antiquité tardive 23: 67-79.
J. Wood (2012) The politics of identity in Visigoth Spain: Religion and power in the histories of Isidor of Seville (Brill's series on the early Middle Ages, 21). Leiden.