Theodahad

Author : Massimiliano Vitiello
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442669338

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Theodahad by Massimiliano Vitiello Pdf

Educated in Platonic philosophy rather than the military arts, the Ostrogothic king Theodahad was never meant to rule. His unexpected nomination as co-regent by his cousin Queen Amalasuintha plunged him into the intrigues of the Gothic court, and Theodahad soon conspired to assassinate the queen. But, once alone on the throne, his lack of political experience and military skill made him ineffective at best and dangerously incompetent at worst. Defeated by the Byzantine emperor Justinian, Theodahad was killed by his own subjects. In Theodahad, Massimiliano Vitiello rigorously investigates the ancient sources in order to reconstruct the events of Theodahad’s life and the contours of sixth-century diplomacy and political intrigues. Painting a picture of an unlikely king whose reign helped spell the end of Ostrogothic Italy, Vitiello’s book not only illuminates Theodahad’s own life but also offers new insight into the sixth-century Mediterranean world.

Author : Senator Cassiodorus
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547350002

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The Letters of Cassiodorus by Senator Cassiodorus Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Letters of Cassiodorus" (Being a Condensed Translation of the Variae Epistolae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator) by Senator Cassiodorus. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Massimiliano Vitiello
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812294347

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Amalasuintha by Massimiliano Vitiello Pdf

In this book, Massimiliano Vitiello situates the life and career of the Ostrogothic queen Amalasuintha (c. 494/5-535), daughter of Theoderic the Great, in the context of the transitional time, after the fall of Rome, during which new dynastic regimes were experimenting with various forms of political legitimation. A member of the Gothic elite raised in the Romanized palace of Ravenna, Amalasuintha married her father's chosen successor and was set to become a traditional Gothic queen—a helpmate and advisor to her husband, the Visigothic prince Eutharic—with no formal political role of her own. But her early widowhood and the subsequent death of her father threw her into a position unprecedented in the Gothic world: a regent mother who assumed control of the government. During her regency, Amalasuintha clashed with a conservative Gothic aristocracy who resisted her leadership, garnered support among her Roman and pro-Roman subjects, defended Italy from the ambitions of other kings, and negotiated the expansionistic designs of Justinian and Theodora. When her son died unexpectedly at a young age, she undertook her most dangerous political enterprise: forming an unmarried coregency with her cousin, Theodahad, whom she raised to the throne. His final betrayal would cost Amalasuintha her rule and her life. Vitiello argues that Amalasuintha's story reveals a key phase in the transformation of queenship in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, a time in which royal women slowly began exercising political power. Assessing the ancient sources for Amalasuintha's biography, Cassiodorus, Procopius, Gregory of Tours, and Jordanes, Vitiello demonstrates the ways in which her life and public image show the influence of late Roman and Byzantine imperial models on the formation of female political power in the post-Roman world.

Author : M. Shane Bjornlie,Michael Shane Bjornlie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107028401

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Politics and Tradition Between Rome, Ravenna and Constantinople by M. Shane Bjornlie,Michael Shane Bjornlie Pdf

A revealing study of the Variae of Cassiodorus and the insight that the epistolary collection can provide into sixth-century Italy.

Author : Prokopios
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 677 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781624661723

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The Wars of Justinian by Prokopios Pdf

A fully-outfitted edition of Prokopios' late Antique masterpiece of military history and ethnography--for the 21st-century reader. "At last . . . the translation that we have needed for so long: a fresh, lively, readable, and faithful rendering of Prokopios' Wars, which in a single volume will make this fundamental work of late ancient history-writing accessible to a whole new generation of students." --Jonathan Conant, Brown University

Author : Hans-Ulrich Wiemer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300271850

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Theoderic the Great by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer Pdf

The first full-scale history of Theoderic and the Goths in more than seventy-five years, tracing the transformation of a divided kingdom into a great power In the year 493, the leader of a vast confederation of Gothic warriors, their wives, and children personally cut down Odoacer, the man famous for deposing the last Roman emperor in 476. That leader became Theoderic the Great (454–526). This engaging history of his life and reign immerses readers in the world of the warrior-king who ushered in decades of peace and stability in Italy as king of Goths and Romans. Theoderic transformed his roving “warrior nation” from the periphery of the Roman world into a standing army that protected his taxpaying Roman subjects with the support of the Roman elite. With a ruling strategy of “integration through separation,” Theoderic not only stabilized Italy but also extended his kingdom to the western Balkans, southern France, and the Iberian Peninsula. Using sources as diverse as letters, poetry, coins, and mosaics, Hans-Ulrich Wiemer brings readers into the world of Theoderic’s court, from Gothic warriors and their families to the notables, artisans, and shopkeepers of Rome and Ravenna to the peasants and enslaved people who tilled the soil on grand rural estates. This book offers a fascinating history of the leader who brought peace to Italy after the disintegration of the Roman Empire.

Author : James Allan Evans
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780292702707

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The Empress Theodora by James Allan Evans Pdf

Presents a biography of the burlesqe actress who became the trusted partner of Byzantine emperor Justinian in both marriage and government affairs.

Author : Guy Halsall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139434249

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Humour, History and Politics in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages by Guy Halsall Pdf

Although the topic of humour has been dealt with for other eras, early medieval humour remains largely neglected. These essays go some way towards filling the gap, examining how early medieval writers deliberately employed humour to make their cases. The essays range from the late Roman empire through to the tenth century, and from Byzantium to Anglo-Saxon England. The subject matter is diverse, but a number of themes link them together, notably the use of irony, ridicule and satire as political tools. Two chapters serve as an extended introduction to the topic, while the following six chapters offer varied treatments of humour and politics, looking at different times and places, but at the Carolingian world in particular. Together, they raise important and original issues about how humour was employed to articulate concepts of political power, perceptions of kingship, social relations and the role of particular texts.

Author : Marcelle Thiebaux
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429618987

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The Writings of Medieval Women by Marcelle Thiebaux Pdf

Published in 1994: The period surveyed in this anthology extends from the eve of Christianity's triumph, in the third century, to the new age of expansion in the fifteenth century, an age marked by the advent of printing pressed, the European discovery of the Caribbean islands, which Columbus called the Indies, the relentless stripping of medieval altars by Church reformists, and perhaps a diminution of female autonomy.

Author : Marcelle Theibaux
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135507787

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The Writings of Medieval Women by Marcelle Theibaux Pdf

"Royal and saintly women are well-represented here, with the welcome addition of women from the Mediterranean arc...Garland has done a solid job of presenting this book." -- Arthuriana "The Anthology gives a fine sense of the great range of women's writing in the Middle Ages." -- Medium Aevum

Author : Senator Cassiodorus
Publisher : London H. Frowde 1886.
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Goths
ISBN : UVA:X000195009

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The Letters of Cassiodorus by Senator Cassiodorus Pdf

Author : Patrick Amory
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0521526353

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People and Identity in Ostrogothic Italy, 489-554 by Patrick Amory Pdf

The barbarians of the fifth and sixth centuries were long thought to be races, tribes or ethnic groups who toppled the Roman Empire and racist, nationalist assumptions about the composition of the barbarian groups still permeate much scholarship on the subject. This book proposes a new view, through a case-study of the Goths of Italy between 489 and 554. It contains a detailed examination of the personal details and biographies of 379 individuals and compares their behaviour with ideological texts of the time. This inquiry suggests wholly new ways of understanding the appearance of barbarian groups and the end of the western Roman Empire, as well as proposing new models of regional and professional loyalty and group cohesion. In addition, the book proposes a complete reinterpretation of the evolution of Christian conceptions of community, and of so-called 'Germanic' Arianism.

Author : Herwig Wolfram
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0520069838

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History of the Goths by Herwig Wolfram Pdf

Provides an overview on the formation of the Gothic tribes, their migrations, and the later history of the Ostrogothic and Visigothic settlements.

Author : J. A. S. Evans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134559756

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The Age of Justinian by J. A. S. Evans Pdf

The Age of Justinian examines the reign of the great emperor Justinian (527-565) and his wife Theodora, who advanced from the theatre to the throne. The origins of the irrevocable split between East and West, between the Byzantine and the Persian Empire are chronicled, which continue up to the present day. The book looks at the social structure of sixth century Byzantium, and the neighbours that surrounded the empire. It also deals with Justinian's wars, which restored Italy, Africa and a part of Spain to the empire.

Author : James Allan Evans
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441120403

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The Power Game in Byzantium by James Allan Evans Pdf

This title presents an original portrayal of Justinian's reign, its politics and theological disputes, focusing on the lives of two extraordinary women who wielded power and influence. A fascinating exploration of the corridors of power in Byzantium of the time of Justinian (527-565), the book reveals how Empress Theodora and Antonina, both alumnae of the theatre, were remarkable examples of social mobility, moving into positions of power and influence, becoming wives of key figures. Theodora had three aims: to protect those Christians who would not accept the Chalcedonian Creed; to advance the careers of her family and friends; and to defend the poor and assist the defenceless and, in particular, women - a mission which she claimed publicly. Finally, there was the allure of power, and though the exercise of power cannot be qualified as an 'aim', there can be no doubt that Theodora loved authority: she made and unmade marriage contracts, and appointed men to office, or destroyed them if they got in her way. Antonina was both friend and agent, and equally ruthless. She managed her husband, Belisarius, and advanced his career, though she was unfaithful to the marriage bed, and would outlive the main players of the age of Justinian.