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War and conquest had a great incidence in the making process of the Visigothic kingdom in Hispania. In this paper, alternative explanations are proposed to the Visigoths’ territorial expansionism by armed means, for which their offensive campaigns are analysed not as a consequence of a secular project aimed at achieving the peninsular unity under Gothic sovereignty, but as a result of immediate motivations which were far from maximalism. In this regard, we will emphasize the role of the monarch’s personal motivations, in particular the pursuit of their political survival, and the army’s collective incentives, such as their eagerness for plunder, as the main driving force of Visigothic offensive military activity. For this purpose, the assumptions derived from social history and the anthropology devoted to the study of war will become very useful analysis tools.

¿Hacia la unidad de Hispania? Explicaciones sociales a las ofensivas militares visigodas en la Península Ibérica (siglos VI-VIII)