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The Ostrogoths from the Migration Period to the Sixth Century - An Ethnographic Perspective

English · Hardback

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Essays examining the Ostrogoths, the richest and most powerful Germanic tribe to emerge after the fall of the Roman Empire, and their role in the evolution of medieval Europe.

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Introduction
Merely an Ideology? - Gothic Identity in Ostrogothic Italy
The Ostrogoths and the Princely Civilization of the Fifth Century
Dwellings and Settlements in Gothic Italy
Germanic and Gothic Kinship Terminology
Social Relations in Southern Italy
The Agriculture of the Goths Between the First and Fifth Centuries AD
Theoderic's Monuments in Ravenna
The Last Rome: From the End of the Fifth to the End of the Sixth Century
Cuncta Italiae Membra Componere: Political Relations in Ostrogothic Italy
Goths Confronting Goths: Ostrogothic Political Relations in Hispania
Linguistic and Literary Traces of the Ostrogoths
The Role of Arianism in Ostrogothic Italy: The Evidence from Ravenna
Conclusion
Index

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Samuel Barnish, Federico Marazzi

Product details

Authors Samuel Barnish
Assisted by Samuel Barnish (Editor), Federico Marazzi (Editor)
Publisher Boydell & Brewer
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 16.08.2007
 
EAN 9781843830740
ISBN 978-1-84383-074-0
No. of pages 320
Dimensions 180 mm x 241 mm x 37 mm
Weight 1188 g
Series Studies in Historical Archaeoethnology
Studies in Historical Archaeoe
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History
Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries

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