Abstract
This article is dedicated to the “visigothic symphony”, incarnated in the last canon of IV council of Toledo, when the Church took a possibility to form an ideology and to influence the reality. TheparticipantsoftheIVcouncilofToledodecreed that a king must be elected by bishops and nobility, and this fact testifies theirs political ambitions. AtonetheChurch (representedby most educated bishops, for example, Isidore of Seville and his disciples) imagines itself as protector of “right” king. Theparticipantsofcouncil created an ideal of governor, and the real king was obliged to follow it, otherwise he may deprive himself of the Church’s supporting. Butthejustandmerciful king disposed of Church’s defence: and the state criminal, who had encroached upon his life and throne, where anathematized.
The ideas, formulated on IV council of Toledo, were developed in the king’s code of law (Liber Iudiciorum), promulgated in 654.
Keywords
council of Toledo, ideal of king, “visigothic symphony”, Isidore of Seville, canon law
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