Making loca sacra in Visigothic Iberia: The Case of Churches

Curiously, we have no previous studies that deal monographically with the question of sacralisation spaces in Visigoth Iberia. It is intended following pages to fill this historiographical gap by focusing on particular case churches. By means compilation and exhaustive analysis all available documentary sources, particularly conciliar canons, it aimed identify different prescriptions strategies were used sacralise new places worship Iberia during Visigothic period. Particular emphasis will be placed ritual procedures, which are mandatory for consecration any church, but also material sensorial factors as complementary determinants definition sacred space. The final result obtained provides us a reality dominated heterogeneity situations sometimes far from conforming desired canon law.