出版社：Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要：Recent advances in areas of research as different as long-distance trade, coin minting, and paleoenvironmental studies, have led us to confirm the existence in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula of an interesting system of production intended for export from the early sixth century to the mid-seventh century AD. This paper has two main objectives. The first is to improve our knowledge of this economic system, mainly studying one of its most representative sectors: mining. Second, based on this knowledge we will try to gain a better understanding of the material basis of the social and political power of local and regional elites in the Suevic- Visigothic Gallaecia and the mechanisms for articulating their power with royal central power. The integration of different kinds of data allows us to observe a real geography of economic power in northwest Iberia. Specifically, bishops and the main church hierarchies seem to have played a much more dynamic role than the textual sources indicate.
