Late Antique Historiography

History

Title(s):
  • History
  • Historiola de iis quae temporibus Gothorum in Hispaniis acta sunt
    (Historiola de iis quae temporibus Gothorum in Hispaniis acta sunt, Short history about the things that happened in Spain in the time of the Goths)
Author:
Period covered:
417-end of 6th c.?
Language:
Latin
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Secular history (general)
  • Chronicle (chronica)
Remarks:
The history is said to cover the history of Spain under the Goths. This would indicate the period after the settlement in Aquitaine. Mommsen (1894: 221-223) proposed to identify the work with the Consularia caesaraugustana, but this is not accepted anymore. Collins (1994) has proposed to identify Maximus as the source or even author of the short version of Isidore of Sevilla's History of the Goths, but there is also little to support that identification.
Edition - Translation:
  • P. Van Nuffelen, L. Van Hoof (2020) The fragmentary Latin histories of Late Antiquity (A.D. 300-650): Edition, translation and commentary. Cambridge.
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Bibliography:
  • C. Cardelle de Hartmann (2001) Victoris Tunnunensis Chronicon cum reliquiis ex Consularibus Caesaraugustanis et Iohannis Biclarensis Chronicon (Corpus Christianorum: Series Latina, 173A). Turnhout.
  • C. Codoñer Merino (1964) El 'De viris illustribus' de Isidoro de Sevilla: estudio y edición crítica. Salamanca.
  • R. Collins (1994) 'Isidore, Maximus, and the Historia Gothorum'. In: Historiographie im frühen Mittelalter, ed. A. Scharer - G. Scheibelreiter. Vienna: 345-358.
  • T. Mommsen (1894) Chronica minora saec. IV.V.VI.VII. Volume Two (Monumenta Germaniae historica: Auctores antiquissimi, 11). Berlin.