Theoderic And The Roman Imperial Restoration

Author : Jonathan J. Arnold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107729872

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Theoderic and the Roman Imperial Restoration by Jonathan J. Arnold Pdf

This book provides a new interpretation of the fall of the Roman Empire and the 'barbarian' kingdom known conventionally as Ostrogothic Italy. Relying primarily on Italian textual and material evidence, and in particular the works of Cassiodorus and Ennodius, Jonathan J. Arnold argues that contemporary Italo-Romans viewed the Ostrogothic kingdom as the Western Roman Empire and its 'barbarian' king, Theoderic (r.489/93–526), as its emperor. Investigating conceptions of Romanness, Arnold explains how the Roman past, both immediate and distant, allowed Theoderic and his Goths to find acceptance in Italy as Romans, with roles essential to the Empire's perceived recovery. Theoderic and the Roman Imperial Restoration demonstrates how Theoderic's careful attention to imperial traditions, good governance, and reconquest followed by the re-Romanization of lost imperial territories contributed to contemporary sentiments of imperial resurgence and a golden age. There was no need for Justinian to restore the Western Empire: Theoderic had already done so.

Author : Peter J. Heather
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199368518

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The Restoration of Rome by Peter J. Heather Pdf

"First published in 2013 in Great Britain by Macmillan."--Title page verso.

Author : Jonathan J. Arnold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107054400

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Theoderic and the Roman Imperial Restoration by Jonathan J. Arnold Pdf

Theoderic and the Roman Imperial Restoration offers a new interpretation of the fall of Rome and the "barbarian" successor state known as Ostrogothic Italy. Relying primarily on Italian textual and material evidence, Jonathan J. Arnold demonstrates that the subjects of the Ostrogothic kingdom viewed it as a revived Roman Empire and its king, Theoderic, as its emperor. Most accounts of Roman history end with the fall of Rome in 476 or see the Ostrogothic kingdom as a barbarous imitator. This book, however, challenges such views, placing the Theoderican epoch firmly within the continuum of Roman history.

Author : Patrick Amory
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : Thomas Hodgkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Europe
ISBN : UCAL:B3482848

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Italy and Her Invaders: The imperial restoration, 535-553 by Thomas Hodgkin Pdf

Author : M. Shane Bjornlie,Michael Shane Bjornlie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004315938

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A Companion to Ostrogothic Italy by Anonim Pdf

A Companion to Ostrogothic Italy is a concise yet comprehensive survey of Italy’s first barbarian kingdom, the Ostrogothic state (ca. 489-554 CE). The volume’s 18 essays cover both traditional topics (such as the Ostrogothic army) and hitherto under-examined subjects (for example Italy’s environmental history), and are designed for new students and specialists.

Author : Judith Herrin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691153438

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Ravenna by Judith Herrin Pdf

In 402 AD, after invading tribes broke through the Alpine frontiers of Italy and threatened the imperial government in Milan, the young Emperor Honorius made the momentous decision to move his capital to a small, easy defendable city in the Po estuary: Ravenna. From then until 751 AD, Ravenna was first the capital of the Western Roman Empire, then that of the immense kingdom of Theoderic the Goth, and finally the centre of Byzantine power in Italy. In this engrossing account Judith Herrin explains how scholars, lawyers, doctors, craftsmen, cosmologists and religious luminaries were drawn to Ravenna where they created a cultural and political capital that dominated northern Italy and the Adriatic. As she traces the lives of Ravenna's rulers, chroniclers and inhabitants, Herrin shows how the city became the meeting place of Greek, Latin, Christian and barbarian cultures and the pivot between East and West. The book offers a fresh account of the waning of Rome, the Gothic and Lombard invasions, the rise of Islam and the devastating divisions within Christianity. It argues that the fifth to eighth centuries should not be perceived as a time of decline from antiquity but rather, thanks to Byzantium, as one of great creativity: the period of 'Early Christendom'. These were the formative centuries of Europe. While Ravenna's palaces have crumbled, its churches have survived. In them, Catholic Romans and Arian Goths competed to produce an unrivalled concentration of spectacular mosaics, many of which still astonish visitors today. Beautifully illustrated with specially commissioned photographs, and drawing on the latest archaeological and documentary discoveries, Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe brings the early Middle Ages to life through the history of this dazzling city.

Author : John Moorhead
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015029289306

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Theoderic in Italy by John Moorhead Pdf

From being a ruler of a barbarian people wandering the Balkans, Theoderic the Ostrogoth became king in Italy (493-526) and established one of the most powerful of the post-Roman states. Though he attracted the attention and praise of some of the major literary figures of the time, his reign ended amid tension and discord.

Author : Massimiliano Vitiello
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442647831

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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 : Stefan Esders,Yaniv Fox,Yitzhak Hen,Laury Sarti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107187153

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East and West in the Early Middle Ages by Stefan Esders,Yaniv Fox,Yitzhak Hen,Laury Sarti Pdf

This interdisciplinary volume re-evaluates the interconnectedness of the Merovingian world with its Mediterranean surroundings.

Author : Javier Martínez Jiménez,Sam Ottewill-Soulsby
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789258172

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Remembering and Forgetting the Ancient City by Javier Martínez Jiménez,Sam Ottewill-Soulsby Pdf

The Greco-Roman world is identified in the modern mind by its cities. This includes both specific places such as Athens and Rome, but also an instantly recognizable style of urbanism wrought in marble and lived in by teeming tunic-clad crowds. Selective and misleading this vision may be, but it speaks to the continuing importance these ancient cities have had in the centuries that followed and the extent to which they define the period in subsequent memory. Although there is much that is mysterious about them, the cities of the Roman Mediterranean are, for the most part, historically known. That the names and pasts of these cities remain known to us is the product of an extraordinary process of remembering and forgetting stretching back to antiquity that took place throughout the former Roman world. This volume tackles this subject of the survival and transformation of the ancient city through memory, drawing upon the methodological and theoretical lenses of memory studies and resilience theory to view the way the Greco-Roman city lived and vanished for the generations that separate the present from antiquity. This book analyzes the different ways in which urban communities of the post-Antique world have tried to understand and relate to the ancient city on their own terms, examining it as a process of forgetting as well as remembering. Many aspects of the ancient city were let go as time passed, but those elements that survived, that were actively remembered, have shaped the many understandings of what it was. In order to do so, this volume assembles specialists in multiple fields to bring their perspectives to bear on the subject through eleven case studies that range from late Antiquity to the mid-twentieth century, and from the Iberian Peninsula to Iran. Through the examination of archaeological remains, changing urban layouts and chronicles, travel guides and pamphlets, they track how the ancient city was made useful or consigned to oblivion.

Author : Oliver Nicholson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1743 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192562463

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The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity by Oliver Nicholson Pdf

The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity is the first comprehensive reference book covering every aspect of history, culture, religion, and life in Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Near East (including the Persian Empire and Central Asia) between the mid-3rd and the mid-8th centuries AD, the era now generally known as Late Antiquity. This period saw the re-establishment of the Roman Empire, its conversion to Christianity and its replacement in the West by Germanic kingdoms, the continuing Roman Empire in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Persian Sassanian Empire, and the rise of Islam. Consisting of over 1.5 million words in more than 5,000 A-Z entries, and written by more than 400 contributors, it is the long-awaited middle volume of a series, bridging a significant period of history between those covered by the acclaimed Oxford Classical Dictionary and The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. The scope of the Dictionary is broad and multi-disciplinary; across the wide geographical span covered (from Western Europe and the Mediterranean as far as the Near East and Central Asia), it provides succinct and pertinent information on political history, law, and administration; military history; religion and philosophy; education; social and economic history; material culture; art and architecture; science; literature; and many other areas. Drawing on the latest scholarship, and with a formidable international team of advisers and contributors, The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity aims to establish itself as the essential reference companion to a period that is attracting increasing attention from scholars and students worldwide.

Author : Laura L. Gathagan,William North
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783270712

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The Haskins Society Journal 26 by Laura L. Gathagan,William North Pdf

The essays here consider a broad range of topics focused around the early to central Middle Ages. These include a fascinating glimpse of the controversy surrounding Theodoric of Ostrogoth's identity as a builder king; evidence of Byzantine slavery that emerges from a ninth-century Frankish exegetical tract; conciliar prohibitions against interfaith dining; and a fresh look at the doomed Danish marriage of Philip II of France. The Journal's commitment to source analysis is continued with chapters examining female authority on the coins of Henry the Lion; the use and meaning of monastic depredation lists; and the relationship between Henry of Huntingdon and Robert of Torigni. In this issue, Wales provides a particular focus, with considerations of the use and manipulation of English annalistic sources by Welsh chroniclers, a close reading of the Brut y Tywysogion, and a survey of the dynamic interactions and the sometimes unexpected political frameworks of Welsh and Anglo-Saxon kings. Contributors: Shane Bobrycki, Gregory I. Halfond, Thomas Heeboll-Hom, Georgia Henley, Jitske Jasperse, Simon Keynes, Cristina La Rocca, Corinna Matlis, Benjamin Pohl, Thomas Roche, Owain Wyn Jones

Author : Rosamond McKitterick,John Osborne,Carol M. Richardson,Joanna Story
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107729636

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Old Saint Peter's, Rome by Rosamond McKitterick,John Osborne,Carol M. Richardson,Joanna Story Pdf

St Peter's Basilica in Rome is arguably the most important church in Western Christendom, and is among the most significant buildings anywhere in the world. However, the church that is visible today is a youthful upstart, only four hundred years old compared to the twelve-hundred-year-old church whose site it occupies. A very small proportion of the original is now extant, entirely covered over by the new basilica, but enough survives to make reconstruction of the first St Peter's possible and much new evidence has been uncovered in the past thirty years. This is the first full study of the older church, from its late antique construction to Renaissance destruction, in its historical context. An international team of historians, art historians, archaeologists and liturgists explores aspects of the basilica's history, from its physical fabric to the activities that took place within its walls and its relationship with the city of Rome.