A profile for the author of the Mozarabic Chronicle of 754

Abstract

The so-called Mozarabic Chronicle of 754 (MC) is the most important surviving account in Latin of the period covering the end of the Visigothic kingdom, the Arab conquest of the Iberian peninsula and the north African governorship of Hispania. All we know about the author of the chronicle (mistakenly identified until the nineteenth century as an otherwise unknown bishop by the name of Isidorus Pacensis) is what Little may be inferred from the text itself. The aim of this article is to piece together a profile of the author based on the evidence of the chronicle, and offer a detailed reanalysis, refinement and discussion of existing theories on the topic.