The Occupation of Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain) in Late Antiquity:

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Catalina Mas Florit ◽  
Miguel Ángel Cau Ontiveros
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Balearic Islands

Buildings of faith: Early Christianity in the countryside of the Balearic Islands

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 271-290
Author(s):  
Catalina Mas Florit ◽  
Miguel Ángel Cau Ontiveros ◽  
Silvia Alcaide
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Early Christianity ◽  
Balearic Islands ◽  
Byzantine Empire ◽  
Trade Routes ◽  
Strategic Position ◽  
Islamic Conquest ◽  
Clear Shift

The Balearic Islands lie not far off the E coast of the Iberian Peninsula in a strategic position for navigation and trade routes (fig. 1 below). Classical writers considered them two groups of islands: Mallorca and Menorca (with adjacent islands and islets), forming the Baliarides, and Ibiza and Formentera (with other islets), considered the Pityussae.1 In 123 B.C., the Balearides were conquered by the Romans and included first in Hispania Citerior and in Tarraconensis later. The unified archipelago became an independent province at the end of the 4th c., probably due to the re-organization by Theodosius.2 In A.D. 455, the Balearics were conquered by the Vandals, while in 534, Apollinarius, sent by Belisarius, conquered the islands for the Byzantine empire. Theoretically, Byzantine rule lasted until the Islamic conquest of Isam-al-Jalawni in 902-3,3 but it is difficult to draw a precise line for the end of late antiquity on the islands. The Muslim occupation at the very start of the 10th c. witnessed a clear shift. In this paper, we will consider the period from the 5th to the start of the 10th c., even if information for the 8th and 9th c. is scarce.

"Monotheistic" tendency in the late antiquity paganism

1996 ◽  
pp. 56-61
Author(s):  
I. Mozgovyy
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
The World

The unceasing approximation of the remarkable 2000th anniversary of the coming to the world of Christ highlights the need for further analysis of those processes that took place in the spiritual life of the ancient peoples and laid the foundations of modern civilization with its universal human norms and values.

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