Description

• Title:
  The Visigothic King Gesalic, Isidore’s Historia Gothorum and the Goths’ Wars against the Franks and the Burgundians in the Years 507–514
• Creator:
  Kasperski, Robert
• Description:
  Historians dealing with the period of the early Middle Ages do not hold a high opinion of Gesalic, the king of the Visigoths. Gesalic is blamed for the defeats they suffered in the war against the Franks and the Burgundians in 507/08–11. Modern historians’ opinions are based mainly on the work of Isidore of Seville who described Gesalic as a coward and a ruler deprived of luck (felicitas). In this article I argue that to pass an accurate judgment on the king it is necessary to take into account the real politico-military situation of the Visigothic kingdom in the years 508–11.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2017 Kwartalnik Historyczny
• Date:
  2017.11.02
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Kwartalnik Historyczny; Tom 124 Nr 1 (2017): English-Language Edition; 7-37;
  2451-1315;
  0023-5903
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla PAN w Warszawie
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/KH/article/view/KH.2017.124.SI.1.01/13247
• Subject:
  Gesalic;
  Visigoths;
  Ostrogoths;
  Franks;
  Theoderic the Great;
  felicitas;
  ignavia
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/KH/article/view/KH.2017.124.SI.1.01
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text