Unidad y paz en el reino visigodo. Dos aspectos del pensamiento politico de Isidoro de Sevilla

Isidore of Seville tried to support the survival of the Visigothic Kingdom in two fundamental political concepts: unity and peace. To obtain unity, which should encompass all matters affecting the people (religion, social community, law, economics and politics), it was first necessary to end the Arian heresy and restore rule under a single religion; it was also necessary to include all the population whether Goths or Hispani; to have the same law in force for the entire territory of the kingdom and strengthen the monarchy to guarantee political union. Isidore reported this necessity in the History of the Goths, with concrete examples from the past, which caused disunity, a weakening of political power and the decline of the Visigothic Kingdom. Peace was always a consequence of social and political unity and social justice leading to a legal whole. For peace and unity in the Visigothic Kingdom, Isidore of Seville did not hesitate to accept and justify actual situations that could have been qualified as unfair, such as the coup of Sisenandus.