No. 33-34 (2017): Categories of power in the Visigothic kingdom of Toledo: tyrants in the works of Juan de Bíclaro, Isidoro de Sevilla and Julián de Toledo

A historical question of the utmost importance and seriousness consists in establishing the degree of individual responsibility in the march of important life events, but also the degree of implication and relevance that a person as a particular individual has in the evolution of History. . It is true that it is set in motion on a large anonymous mass that only now in relatively recent times we begin to know. Until not too long ago, general concepts such as mentality or microhistory came to try to alleviate that emptiness of people without History, an emptiness that B. Brecht so eloquently interrogates us in some famous verses that make it difficult for us to know much about walls and cities and little on those who raised them.