These five seventh-century
religious texts cast light not only on the
development of the church in
Visigothic Spain and its
internal politics, but also on its, at times troubled,
relationship with the
Visigothic state and the history of that state itself, particularly in the period when the Visigoths changed their adherence from Arian to Trinitarian Christianity.
"...these intriguing texts will help dispel the still prevalent notion that Visigothic Spain was some kind of 'Dark Age'"—
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies.