Sobre rex y regnum. Problemas de terminología política durante el primer siglo de historia de los visigodos

In this paper we review the significance of the terms rex and regnum during the fifth century in the pars accidentis. They were used by Roman sources to qualify some military chiefs who were necessarily not of German origin. For the Goths who were established in Gallia the idea that they wanted to create an independent state inside the Roman one could be definitively banished away. Their chiefs, without renouncing to their offices, hoped to become highest Roman army titles, that they not ever reached, in order to achieve economic stability and prestige in front provincial people.