Theoderic and the Roman Imperial Restoration

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan J. Arnold is Assistant Professor of Ancient and Medieval History at the University of Tulsa. His research and publications focus on issues of culture and identity, travel and communication, and the legacy of Rome in the late antique and early medieval West, particularly in Gaul and Italy. He has written entries for a number of encyclopedic works, including the Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages and the Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity, and his articles appear in the Journal of Late Antiquity and The Battle of Vouillé, 507 CE: Where France Began. Klappentext Theoderic and the Roman Imperial Restoration offers a new interpretation of the fall of Rome and the 'barbarian' successor state known as Ostrogothic Italy. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. An Empire Turned Upside-Down: 1. Ennodius the Ligurian; 2. Cassiodorus the Calabrian; Part II. Emperor Theoderic: 3. Princeps romanus; 4. The Imperial image; Part III. Italo-Romans and Roman Goths: 5. Men of Mars; 6. Rex genitus, vir inlustris; Part IV. Italia Felix: 7. Italy revived; 8. Rome rejuvenated; Part V. Renovatio Imperii: 9. Becoming post-Roman; 10. Gallia felix; Epilogue.

Product details

• Authors: Jon Arnold, Jonathan J. Arnold, Jonathan J. (University of Tulsa) Arnold, Arnold Jonathan J.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.02.2014
• EAN: 9781107054400
• ISBN: 978-1-107-05440-0
• No. of pages: 354
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Italy, Colonialism & imperialism, Ancient World, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, c 500 to c 1000 CE, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, BCE to c 500 CE, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, BCE period – Protohistory