People and Identity in Ostrogothic Italy, 489554

Zusammenfassung The barbarians of the fifth and sixth centuries have long been considered the ethnic group responsible for the fall of the Roman Empire. This book challenges this interpretation! through a case-study of the Goths of Italy between 489 and 554. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Map of Ostrogothic Italy; List of rulers; Introduction: studying the barbarians in late antiquity; 1. Ethnicity, ethnography and community in the fifth and sixth centuries; 2. The Ravenna government and ethnographic identity: from civitas to bellicositas; 3. Individual reactions to ideology. I: names, language and profession; 4. Complementary and competing ideals of community: Italy and the Roman empire; 5. Individual reactions to ideology. II: soldiers, civilians and political allegiance; 6. Catholic communities and Christian empire; 7. Individual reactions to ideology. III: Catholics and Arians; 8. The origin of the Goths and Balkan military culture; Conclusion; Appendix 1: the inquiry into Gundila's property; Appendix 2: the Germanic culture construct; Appendix 3: archaeological and toponymic research on Ostrogothic Italy; Appendix 4: dress, hairstyle and military customs; Prosopographical appendix: a prosopography of the Goths in Italy, 489-554.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Patrick Amory, Amory Patrick
• Con la collaborazione di: Rosamond McKitterick (Editore), Christine Carpenter (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 16.10.2003
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; Saggistica > Storia > Altro
• EAN: 9780521526357
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52635-7
• Numero di pagine: 548
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Medieval > 33; Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
• Categorie: European History, prehistory, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Italy, CE period up to c 1500, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory