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- Title
Una cartografía para los once condados de la diócesis de Lugo: hacia una nueva aproximación al Parrochiale Suevum.
- Authors
BERMÚDEZ BELOSO, Mariña; IBÁÑEZ BELTRÁN, Luis Manuel
- Abstract
The text known as Parrochiale Suevum is considered to have been originally written in the 6th century, but the relevance of its content made it the object of several interpolated copies in the following centuries. In all the altered versions of the document that have been preserved, the bishopric of Lugo is organised into eleven comitatus. In this article we analyse a document that presents a detailed description of these counties, with a degree of precision that permits the cartographical reconstruction of each of these. Although the date provided in the text is 572, historical evidence locates its composition in the late 11th century, within a wider and more turbulent context in the dioceses of western Iberia. This article proposes a careful analysis of the document that describes the comitatus, combining the tools provided by Digital Humanities, GIS in particular, with a more traditional historical methodology. The resulting map provides the starting point for a better comprehension of the ambitions of the Bishop of Lugo's territorial ambitions and of the political and religious context of the 11th century, as well as of the Parrochiale Suevum itself.
- Subjects
IBERIAN Peninsula; DIGITAL humanities; DIOCESES; COMPREHENSION; AMBITION
- Publication
Vínculos de Historia, 2020, Issue 9, p181
- ISSN
2254-6901
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18239/vdh_2020.09.09