In my undergraduate honors thesis for the Stanford classics department, I explored the concepts of Gens Florentissima and Gens Fortissima in Isidore of Seville's Historia de regibus Gothorum, Vandalorum et Suevorum, a delightful little Latin work about the Visigothic conquest of the Iberian Peninsula and the nation's triumphant (for Isidore) conversion from Arianism to Catholicism.… Continue reading Why Florentissima?
Musings of a medievalist mama 