Includes bibliographical references and index

Frontmatter -- -- Contents -- -- Maps -- -- Introduction: An Invisible Class in a Silent Land -- -- PART I. WESTERN IBERIAN ARISTOCRACIES IN THE LATE ROMAN EMPIRE -- -- Chapter 1. In the Shadow of Empire: Settlement and Society in the Late Roman Period -- -- Chapter 2. An Unprovincial Aristocracy: Aristocratic Identity in a Renewed Empire -- -- Chapter 3. Economic Strategies in a Renewed Empire: Aristocratic Economic Units in the Late Roman Period -- -- PART II. WESTERN IBERIAN ARISTOCRACIES IN THE POST-ROMAN WORLD -- -- Chapter 4. Adapting to a New World: Post-Roman Settlement in Western Iberia -- -- Chapter 5. Crafting Fragmented Statehood: Aristocratic Identity in the Post-Roman World -- -- Chapter 6. Preserving Wealth in a Changing World: Post-Roman Aristocratic Economic Strategies -- -- Conclusion -- -- List of Abbreviations -- -- Notes -- -- Bibliography -- -- Index -- -- Acknowledgments.