ed. Nicolaus Herbers. Hispaniae et Portugalliae ecclesiis monasteriis civitatibus singvlisque personis concessorvm, vol. VII, ed. Catharina Knie, Sabina Panzram, Lavrentivs Livorsi, Rochus Selvaggi, and Waldemarus Könighaus. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2022, 114 pp, 3 b/w maps.

The publication of new sources is always an excellent contribution to Historical Studies, and in this case, about late antique and medieval Iberia. For this south-western part of Europe, since the 1700s scholars have made great efforts to publish ecclesiastical sources, the principal documents during the Middle Ages. This new book represents a big step forward to shed light on a polemic period, full of political and religious changes in the transition from Roman imperial authority into early medieval kingdoms. The rise of the pope and bishops as central figures in these western European territories was significant. This book is a compendium of summarized documents from papal chancellery to Hispanic authorities (Kings, bishops, abbots, counts) during the late antiquity to the early Middle Ages (the first eight centuries). All the documents were previously published, but in this new edition, the principal contribution is the crucial critical bibliography.