Introduction

Welcome to ROMEX, PID2021-123986NB-I00 - Romanorum et exterarum gentium generalis consensus: procesos de integración en la Hispania tardoantigua, a three-year project  funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033  and by ‘ERDF A way of making Europe’.

This project delves into the interactions that took place between the various ethnic and religious groups of Late Antique Hispania, trying to cast light into the factors and the strategies that led to their integration, as well as the role played in this process by the civil, the ecclesiastical institutions and the common population. A particular attention is devoted to the strategies and the resources employed for coexistence, integration and collaboration among the different Late Antique Hispanic communities, examining individual and collective attitudes favourable to integration and its effectiveness as mediation and social structuring.

Late Antique Spain is conceived, therefore, as a laboratory to understand the set of problems that migration, coexistence and integration of diverse groups present nowadays, as well as of how these can be addressed at a state, cultural and ideological level. In brief, we intend that our Project not only help to better comprehend the Late Antique world but also our own, in such a way that this last, making use of his experience to avoid the contempt ofof the Other and to promote respect, dialogue and the exchange of positive values of each one of the cultures, ethnic groups and religions.