People and identity in Ostrogothic Italy, 489-554
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People and identity in Ostrogothic Italy, 489-554
(Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought / edited by G.G. Coulton, 4th ser. ; 33)
Cambridge University Press, 1997
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
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Note
Bibliography: p. 487-514
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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