The History of Spain Podcast14 Juni 2019

Changing dynasties

This is episode 17 called Changing dynasties and in this episode you will learn:

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- What was the ideal of good government in 7th century Christian Europe
- The early internal problems of Sisebut due to eclipses
- Sisebut's campaign against Byzantine's Spania, and why he decided not to completely expel them from Spain
- The start of a trend under Sisebut: anti-Jewish policies, fake conversions and the problem of crypto-Jews
- The passive role of the Church in the forced conversions of Sisebut
- Suintila's successful campaigns against the Vascones and his success in ejecting the Byzantines from the Iberian Peninsula, which meant that Suintila became the first king of all Spain
- The failed attempts of Suintila to centralize and his overthrown led by Sisenand
- What was a agreed in the Fourth Council of Toledo to limit royal power while securing more strongly the position of the king
- The reigns of Chintila and Tulga where the position of the king was very weak, and an explanation of why was that the case
- The successful rebellion of 79-year-old Chindasuinth against Tulga
- Intellectual achievements of 7th century Visigothic Spain and why was Spain the intellectual and cultural center of Western Europe in that period
- Reflection on why 7th century Visigothic kings failed to centralize unlike Leovigild and Reccared

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