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The Province of Gallaecia during the Reign of Suebi and Visigoths: Transformation of Society between Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Mestek, Oto ; Picková, Dana (referee)
During the reforms of emperors Diocletian and Constantine the Great, the new Roman province of Gallaecia was created at the turn the 3rd and 4th centuries located at the northwestern tip of the Iberian Peninsula. In 411 it was seized by the barbarian tribes of the Suebi and the Hasdingi and the Roman government lost control of it. While the Hasdingi left, the Suebi created their own kingdom in the province. Their kings and warriors played essential role in the transformation of the province during the period which we consider to be the transition from the classical antiquity to the Middle Ages. The Suebic kings, after converting to orthodox Christianity, managed to reorganize the Galician episcopal structure and allowed their country to continue the Roman Mediterranean trade. Subsequently, in 585, Suebic Gallaecia was conquered by the Visigothic king Leovigild and incorporated as a province into his kingdom. Gallaecie thus traces the Visigothic period which lasted there until the arrival of the Arabs. This thesis seeks to capture and describe the regional transformation during this transitional period. It traces the political, social, and economic development of Gallaecia during the era of the Suebic and Visigothic kings.
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Kingdom of the Visigoths: Terms and Aspects of Takeover of the Royal Power
Mestek, Oto ; Drška, Václav (advisor) ; Izdný, Jakub (referee)
Gothic tribes settled on the lower Danube and on the northern shore of the Black Sea entered in the year 376 the territory of the Roman Empire. This was followed by fierce fighting and migration of the Goths, who passed through the Balkans and Italy and reached Aquitaine in 413, where they settled temporarily. Here, originally various Gothic groups were formed into the one tribe gens, which we now call Visigoths. The pressure of the Franks from the north forced the Visigoths to leave Aquitaine at the beginning of the 6th century and move on to the Iberian Peninsula. Here the Visigoths established their own Kingdom of Toledo. Because the Visigoths at the time of their formation were not a homogeneous group, but rather a lose conglomerate of various barbarian groups and military units, they had no tradition of appointing their rulers. For this reason, they created the mechanism of the royal elections. Vallia was the first elected king in 415. During Visigothic history, a sequence of elected kings was disrupted several times by attempts of some kings to enforce a hereditary monarchy. This led in 633 to the enactment of the royal elections at the 4th Council of Toledo. Other ecclesiastical councils further improved the principles of election. The work will focus on the development of the Visigothic...
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Foreign policy of king Theoderic the Great: Presentation of his power and marriage polic
Mestek, Oto ; Drška, Václav (advisor) ; Picková, Dana (referee)
The Ostrogothic king Theodoric the Great, after years of struggle with other Gothic groups and Eastern Roman emperor Zeno in the Balkans, set out in 488 with his tribe to the west. There he defeated King Odoaecer and became ruler of Italy, where he founded the Ostrogothic kingdom and immediately became involved in the complicated relations between individual barbarian rulers of Western Europe. He had to clash with Vandals, Franks, Burgundians and Visigoths. Theodoric used his female relatives to make marriage alliances with neighboring kings to secure his position on the international scene. With the help of the "laws of the barbarians" and the official Ostrogothic correspondence written by Cassiodorus Senator we will focus on the various marriages organized by Theodoricc and how these marriages and other Theodoric's steps helped him to create his position among the other barbarian rulers.
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