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 f