TY - JOUR AU - Kasperski, Robert PY - 2017/11/02 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The Visigothic King Gesalic, Isidore’s Historia Gothorum and the Goths’ Wars against the Franks and the Burgundians in the Years 507–514 JF - Kwartalnik Historyczny JA - KH VL - 124 IS - 1 SE - DO - 10.12775/KH.2017.124.SI.1.01 UR - https://apcz.umk.pl/KH/article/view/KH.2017.124.SI.1.01 SP - 7-37 AB - Historians dealing with the period of the early Middle Ages do not hold a high opinion of Gesalic, the king of the Visigoths. Gesalic is blamed for the defeats they suffered in the war against the Franks and the Burgundians in 507/08–11. Modern historians’ opinions are based mainly on the work of Isidore of Seville who described Gesalic as a coward and a ruler deprived of luck (<em>felicitas</em>). In this article I argue that to pass an accurate judgment on the king it is necessary to take into account the real politico-military situation of the Visigothic kingdom in the years 508–11. ER -