¿Germanismo o romanismo? Una espinosa cuestión en el tránsito del mundo antiguo a la Edad Media: el caso de los visigodos

Abstract

Traditionally, the historiography has considered the Visigoths like a people with national identity totally constituted to its entrance in the Roman Empire (376 AD), and like the creators of a Hispanic State of germanic essence. Nevertheless, the Visigoths, like other barbarian peoples that penetrated in the imperial territory in IV and V centuries AD, lacked such national unit and were influenciated by the political and cultural force of the Roman civilisation. In that sense, the importance of romanitas is the preeminent element in the birth of the new States of western Europe at the beginning of the Middle Ages