Date of Award

2019

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Rohrbacher, David

Area of Concentration

Classics

Abstract

This thesis offers a complete English translation of the Chronicle of Sampiro with a brief commentary, as well a historical overview of Spain, beginning with the foundation of León as Legio under the Roman Republic. The introduction analyzes major historical events that took place in the Iberian Peninsula, especially those in the late ninth, tenth, and early eleventh century. It includes a brief history of the city of León, Spain from its foundation, the influences upon it of the Romans, Moors, and Visigoths, the transition of the Asturian monarchy into the Kingdom of León, and the chronicle of Sampiro and his intent. The second part of the thesis provides the first-ever English translation and commentary of Sampiro’s chronicle from its earliest version available in an eleventhcentury Medieval Latin chronicle that had been mistitled as the Historia Silense. Its proper name is the Historia Legionense.

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