“The first ‘Gallaecia fulget’ on a cultural level was in the Swabian period”

How to lead an honest life, written in 570 by Martiño de Dumio, the highest religious authority of Gallaecia when King Miro acceded to the crown of the Swabian kingdom, was a complete success in medieval Europe. Translated into Galician by the Consello da Cultura Galega (CCG), this Tuesday will be used during a day organized by that institution, which serves not only to deepen the figure of this monk, but also to learn more about “the historical age that is in the shadows, but because every time research and academic work allow us to shed more light,” he spoke with the president of the entity Rosario Álvarez. It is processed during the period, like Lembrou or the coordinator of the publication Manuel Gaga, which causes increasing interest.

On that day, all the authors participated in two studies that follow the translation into the Galician language honest formula vitae — Latinist Xosé Antonio López Silva — with the exception of Rebecca A. Devlin, who was unable to attend. Experts offered an overview of the Kingdom of Swabia and the construction of later and contemporary Gallic culture.

“I checked for years until I came to the conclusion that the Suevian kingdom never existed. In the beginning, there was a kingdom of two Swabians, and from the sixth century it was the kingdom of Galicia, which was ruled by the Swabians,” said historian Anselmo López Carreira, who reflected on the origin of this kingdom. In this sense, there are difficulties when it comes to the passage from the beginning of the 5th century to the end of the 6th century, because, although there is documentation about the initial and final phase, “I have heard for decades that we do not be afraid of anything”.

In addition, he wanted to specify some ideas about the Swabians, “who in recent times were considered real savages, and did not disagree with anything”. He also established some two feats of this phase, such as Requiario being the first western king to issue currency under his own name or having the first territorial arrangement of the early Middle Ages.

José Carlos Sánchez Pardo from the University of Santiago, to explain the importance of the Kingdom of Swabia, influences international relations. “We have the idea that we live on the periphery, but in certain historical periods that periphery becomes a dynamic center. When we talk about the sea, Galicia is located in the central area between the North and South Atlantic. Galicia has important dynamics in the 5th and 6th centuries. century and will take time to achieve again,” he explained, noting that Vigo was one of the two privileged ports of the Swabian kingdom, with direct trade with the territories of Syria and Palestine, for example. “The whole kingdom was not peripheral, Senón moi conectado,” he said.

A professor from the University of A Coruña, J. Eduardo López Pereira, was responsible for dealing with culture and thought in late antique Gallaecia, who pointed out that the era of the Swabian Kingdom was “a wonderful moment for the culture of Galicia. It was the first Gallaecia fulget. At that time, no territory in the whole of Europe can be compared on a cultural level with what is happening in Galicia in the IV century and, mainly, in the V» subliño. In this sense, he pointed out that, more than Galicia had ever occupied territorially, a few years before “it was the only occasion that we had an emperor who commanded the whole world”, referring to Theodosius (379-395), which historian Hidatius reports that «de natione Hispanus, province Gallaeciae, civitate Cauca», another recole no seu artigo. In addition, enxalzou, the compendium of Martiña de Dumia «é authentic sociological study of the VI century».

For his band, the enormous diffusion achieved by Como levar unha vida honesta durante a Idade Media commissioned by Laura Ranero from the Complutense University of Madrid. Nesa achieved a key role with a huge blow, the lembro or feito, which was soon attributed to Seneca. Or that would explain why it doesn’t stop appearing in registries. To date, 791 manuscript copies of the Latin text have been counted. For his band, Xosé Antonio López Silva, who published the reports, argued for the way the Swabian kingdom assumes “the fundamental chronological alicecerce for the construction of the identity of Galicia”.