Conferencia. De la introducción por parte de los organizadores: « The perception of a late antique rural environment particularly resistant to abandoning pagan rituals has often been reconstructed from the condemnations of Gallic and Hispanic bishops, who noted that certain rural practices echoed the customs of the pagans (paganorum consuetudine). This intervention seeks to explore the dynamics behind this association through a set of practices repeatedly identified as such: rituals aimed at mitigating climatic risks. The study compares condemned practices –such as the use of ligatures by peasants to protect their livestock, an informal “bottom-up” response– with sanctioned practices, such as the procession in Emerita Augusta to request rain, institutionalised “top-down”. The analysis of these rituals aims to highlight the ritual flexibility of the devotees and the centrality of the practitioner over the ritual object, while also emphasising how certain practices challenged the boundaries of religious authority. In doing so, it seeks to show how ecclesiastical propaganda was employed to mediate the tension between institutional norms and “lived religion”. «
Dr. Rocío Suárez Vallejo (Hamburg – Innsbruck)
14 de julio de 2026, 16 horas c.t.
Organisación: Universität Hamburg, Fachbereich Geschichte – Arbeitsbereich Alte Geschichte
Lugar: Universität Hamburg, Von-Melle-Park 6, 20146 Hamburg – Phil-Turm Hörsaal F
Más información: Negotiating Climatic Risk 07.2026
Coloquio internacional. De la introducción por parte de los organizadores: «The study of Visigothic kingship has a long and respectable tradition. On the one hand, scholars have scrutinized the numerous normative texts from the Visigothic kingdom to recover the legal foundations of kingship and the institutions surrounding kings (court, councils, army). As a corollary, a robust series of studies that combine normative and historical texts have explored the interactions between kings and magnates and kings and bishops in what can be described as the kingdom’s “high politics.” On the other hand, scholars have combined the study of normative texts with theological treatises or descriptions of rituals to discuss cultural traditions of the post-imperial world. As a result, Visigothic kingship has been presented as having evolved from a supposed ancestral form of Gothic or Germanic kingship, as resulting from the transformation of Roman rulership, or as having developed Christian ideas of government.
