Open AccessEl <i>officium palatinum</i> visigodo. Entorno regio y poder aristocrático
Author(s) -
Amancio Isla Frez
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
hispania
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.189
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1988-8368
pISSN - 0018-2141
DOI - 10.3989/hispania.2002.v62.i212.243
Subject(s) - aristocracy (class) , politics , power (physics) , humanities , function (biology) , art , political science , law , physics , quantum mechanics , evolutionary biology , biology
The «officium palatinum» lies at the heart of political power in the Visigothic kingdom of Toledo. We describe its components and function, with particular attention to thouse offices open to the aristocracy, in which its members could fulfil a personal «cursus honorum», from lower or junior ranks to the high «officium» of «dux», underlining the continuity of some late Roman administrative traditions. However, this political body is in many ways beyond the king's control and we should not consider it as a comfortable inner circle of selected royal bureaucrats