Nouvelles chartes visigothiques du monastère pyrénéen d’Asán

Céline Martin (1) , Juan José Larrea

1 Ausonius-Institut de recherche sur l'Antiquité et le Moyen âge

This book offers the first collective discussion, by archaeologists, historians and philologists, of a corpus of six charters (four of which recently discovered) that all came from or are linked to the archive of the monastery of Asán. The various contributions examine the monastery in its territorial context across the centuries, and its economic underpinning through the exploitation of its estates. Also included are explorations of monastic life in the eastern Pyrenees, which provides some of the earliest evidence for it in the peninsula, and consideration of its connections to early Gallic and Italian monasticism. Asán is also the source of the earliest evidence for the use of particular forms of documentary record or charter in the Iberian Peninsula in the post-Roman period. These texts offer unexpected and important information about the legal and administrative practices of the Visigothic monarchy in the late sixth century and of the monastery’s connections to it. Amongst these are its role in providing a succession of bishops for important dioceses in the provinces of Tarraconensis and Narbonensis, in a period normally seen as being marked by religious conflict between church and state. Amongst other bodies of evidence studied here are later texts relating to Asán, including the hagiographic dossiers of Victorianus, abbot of Asán, and of Gaudiosus, bishop of Tarrazona, with new critical editions of several of them being included in this book.

Mots clés: Haut Moyen Âge; Antiquité tardive; Péninsule Ibérique; Royaume visigothique; Monastères; Chartes

Domaines: Histoire

Céline Martin, Juan José Larrea (Dir.). Nouvelles chartes visigothiques du monastère pyrénéen d’Asán. Ausonius Éditions, 2021, 978-2-35613-371-7. ⟨halshs-03227375⟩