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      Framing Power in Visigothic Society : Discourses, Devices, and Artifacts 

      Ervig and Capital Penalties: The Way of Exile

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      Amsterdam University Press
      Romano-Germanic Law, Death penalty, Exile, Seventh Century, Visigothic kingship

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          The legal system of the Visigothic Kingdom was significantly indebted to Roman law, and for a long time it preserved the Late Roman capital penalties of death and deportation. Yet, Ervig’s reign appears to be marked by a turning point, at the end of the seventh century: his laws ended the coexistence of both penalties in the Visigothic penal system, leaving exile as the only punishment incurred by political and religious offenders. Such a reform needs to be carefully weighed: was it a real break with prior penal practice? Can it be interpreted as a Christian reform of the civil law? And what about the seemingly increasing confusion between exile and servitude?

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          February 04 2020
          : 133-158
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          [1 ] University of Bordeaux-Montaigne
          10.5117/9789463725903_ch06
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