ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the Herculean or Babylonian or Hebrew origins of the imperial city or on any of the other nineteen pre-Roman possibilities that so preoccupied Toledo's early modern historians, or on the interest in the place that the excavation of the Visigothic city has recently prompted. Toledo's riposte, when it came, was based on neither of these devices. Eventually it would rest on the practice of promoting Toledo's reputation and prestige by injecting alien material into the historiographical mainstream. The illustration to the privilege in which Sancho promises to be buried in Toledo cathedral shows king and archbishop seated in exact horizontal equivalence, exactly as in the representations of kings and archbishops presiding over Visigothic councils in the Notule de primatu manuscript. The absence from Toledo cathedral's title deeds of Sancho's coronation privilege described by Master Jofré's speaks for itself.
