"National" Councils and Creeping Revolutions: Agde 506, Orléans 511, Épaone 517
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The paper aims at highlighting some aspects of how councils worked as catalysing means of the political, social and cultural transformative processes in the passage from the Gallic-Roman age to the so-called Roman-Barbarian kingdoms. The study focuses on the first three councils of the sixth century. They are “national” councils (Visigoth, Frank, Burgund) as they aspire to convey the idea that their organization is the result of a political compactness and a territorial unity. From various points of view, these councils appear prefatory to the developments that would take place in the Early Middle Ages; they are also particularly emblematic for the understanding of the role of episcopacies and religion in the ruling dynamics of the new regimes.
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