Leovigild, restorer and unifier

The History of Spain Podcast

This is episode 15 called Leovigild, restorer and unifier, and in this episode you will learn:
SHOW NOTES
- The solution of Liuva to save the Visigothic Kingdom and the importance of that decision
- Leovigild's successful campaign against the Byzantine province of Spania
- The first campaign against self-governed areas in Baetica
- Visigothic campaign in the north to conquer the buffer zone between the Suebi and themselves and the short campaign against the Suebi
- The conquest of the last self-governed region of southern Spain, Orospeda
- Leovigild's legal, administrative and territorial reforms to strengthen the Visigothic state and unify the Goths and Hispano-Romans to rule over a more homogenous society
- The background of the rebellion of his son Hermenegild
- Why Hermenegild's rebellion wasn't a religious nor an ethnic war
- The attempts of Leovigild to solve the religious issue by imposing religious unity with a national, reformed, and more Catholic version of Arianism
- How Hermenegild's rebellion failed
- The last conquest of Leovigild: the annexation of the Kingdom of the Suebi
- How the economy of Visigothic Spain was
- Reflection on the importance and true legacy of Leovigild's reign