Changing dynasties

This is episode 17 called Changing dynasties and in this episode you will learn: SHOW NOTES - What was the ideal of good government in 7th century Christian Europe - The early internal problems of Sisebut due to eclipses - Sisebut's campaign against Byzantine's Spania, and why he decided not to completely expel them from Spain - The start of a trend under Sisebut: anti-Jewish policies, fake conversions and the problem of crypto-Jews - The passive role of the Church in the forced conversions of Sisebut - Suintila's successful campaigns against the Vascones and his success in ejecting the Byzantines from the Iberian Peninsula, which meant that Suintila became the first king of all Spain - The failed attempts of Suintila to centralize and his overthrown led by Sisenand - What was a agreed in the Fourth Council of Toledo to limit royal power while securing more strongly the position of the king - The reigns of Chintila and Tulga where the position of the king was very weak, and an explanation of why was that the case - The successful rebellion of 79-year-old Chindasuinth against Tulga - Intellectual achievements of 7th century Visigothic Spain and why was Spain the intellectual and cultural center of Western Europe in that period - Reflection on why 7th century Visigothic kings failed to centralize unlike Leovigild and Reccared