La conflictividad social en la tardoantigüedadun análisis sociológico y lexicológico. Estudio sobre los principales conflictos del occidente tardorromano : bagaudas, circunceliones y priscilianistas

Abstract

This research is considered as an interdisciplinary work and it seeks to clarify, through a comparative study, the main social conflicts that historiography has most frequently emphasized in the late Roman West: bagaudae, circumcellions and priscillianists. Furthermore, as an analytical and methodological tool, this study makes use of the various theoretical contributions that, essentially from the sociological discipline, have been configured to interpret the omnipresent phenomenon of social conflict. It will trace the terminology used through the sources, explicit or implicit, in an attempt to examine the complex process that relates the record of historical information, intentionality and the degree of subjectivity. There are several reasons for this research. 1) Firstly, the need for an exhaustive study to jointly address the nexuses and divergences of three movements traditionally linked by scientific literature. 2) Secondly, the incorporation of various analytical elements from the sociological theory of conflict to the historical research of antiquity can provide new interpretative approaches that have been neglected until now. 3) Thirdly, we consider it necessary to have direct contact with the sources maintaining, however, a strong sense of criticism and suspicion with respect to the authors, the context of creation and the ideological conjunctures of embodiment, visibly appreciable in the original terminology. There is no concrete work devoted exclusively to the comparative study of the three phenomena in question, which applies an analytical approach imported from the sociology of conflict and which simultaneously focuses on the lexicological interpretation of the terminology used in the original sources. In order to respond to the proposed objectives, a purely historiographical research process has been designed, that will nevertheless provide analytical tools from other disciplines...