El esquema provincial en el contexto administrativo de la monarquía visigoda de Toledo

• Main Author: Pablo C. Díaz
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Casa de Velázquez 2019-11-01
• Series: Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez
• Subjects: centralization; dux; periphery; province; rector; taxation
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/mcv/11009

The administration of the Visigothic kingdom reiteratedly refers to the provincial structure as an inherent part of its political, legal and fiscal functioning. However, when trying to verify the practical level of this provincial articulation, one gets the impression that the province is an absolutely imprecise entity, both in the structuring of its organizational chart and in its effective powers. Beyond the scope of justice, and perhaps of the military framework, it seems that the provinces hardly had an independent administrative entity; they do not seem to play any role in the fiscal sphere and were subjected to the designs of a real power increasingly centralized around the court. A lack of definition that also reaches the variable geographical delimitation of the provincial demarcation and their very number.