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Author: Herwig Wolfram
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 644
ISBN-13: 9780520069831
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides an overview on the formation of the Gothic tribes, their migrations, and the later history of the Ostrogothic and Visigothic settlements.
Author: S. J. B. Barnish
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 510
ISBN-13: 9781843830740
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Ostrogoths appropriated the remnants of the Roman empire in Italy, Spain, southern Gaul and the north-west Balkans. In this title, studies illuminate the evolution of medieval Europe from Roman civilisation moderated by Germanic outsiders.
Author: Thomas S. Burns
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1991-02-22
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780253206008
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Thorough and convincing... likely to become the standard work on the subject." --Library Journal "Highly readable." --Medieval Literature "A major work of synthesis." --Walter E. Kaegi "Burns has achieved much for the modern study of Ostrogoths." --Antiquaries Journal
Author: David M. Gwynn
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2017-11-15
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 1780238924
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Goths are truly a “lost civilization.” Sweeping down from the north, ancient Gothic tribes sacked the imperial city of Rome and set in motion the decline and fall of the western Roman empire. Ostrogothic and Visigothic kings ruled over Italy and Spain, dominating early medieval Europe. Yet after the last Gothic kingdom fell more than a thousand years ago, the Goths disappeared as an independent people. Over the centuries that followed, as traces of Gothic civilization vanished, its people came to be remembered as both barbaric destroyers and heroic champions of liberty. In this engaging history, David M. Gwynn brings together the interwoven stories of the original Goths and the diverse Gothic heritage, a heritage that continues to shape our modern world. From the ancient migrations to contemporary Goth culture, through debates over democratic freedom and European nationalism, and drawing on writers from Shakespeare to Bram Stoker, Gwynn explores the ever-widening gulf between the Goths of history and the popular imagination. Historians, students of architecture and literature, and general readers alike will learn something new about this great lost civilization.
Author: Patrick Amory
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-10-16
Total Pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9780521526357
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Arne Søby Christensen
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9788772897103
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a study in the myth of the origins and early history of the Goths as told in the Getica written by Jordanes in AD 551. Jordanes claimed they emigrated from the island of Scandza (Sweden) in 1490 BC, thus giving them a history of more than two thousand years. He found this narrative in Cassiodorus' Gothic history, which is now lost. The present study demonstrates that Cassiodorus and Jordanes did not base their accounts on a living Gothic tradition of the past, as the Getica would have us believe. On the contrary, they got their information only from the Graeco-Roman literature. The Greeks and Romans, however, did not know of the Goths until the middle of the third century AD. Consequently, Cassiodorus and Jordanes created a Gothic history partly through an erudite exploitation of the names of foreign peoples, and partly by using the narratives about other peoples' history as if they belonged to the Goths. The history of the Migrations therefore must be reconsidered.
Author: HENRY BRADLEY
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Published: 1888
Total Pages: 416
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Peter J. Heather
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780198205357
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the collision of Goths and Romans in the fourth and fifth centuries. In these years Gothic tribes played a major role in the destruction of the western half of the Roman Empire, moving the length of Europe from what is now the USSR to establish successor states to the Roman Empire in southern France and Spain (the Visigoths) and in Italy (the Ostrogoths). Our understanding of the Goths in this "Migration Period" has been based upon the Gothic historian Jordanes, whose mid-sixth-century Getica suggests that the Visigoths and Ostrogoths entered the Empire already established as coherent groups and simply conquered new territories. Using more contemporary sources, Peter Heather is able to show that, on the contrary, Visigoths and Ostrogoths were new and unprecedentedly large social groupings, and that many Gothic societies failed even to survive the upheavals of the Migration Period. Dr Heather's scholarly study explores the complicated interactions with Roman power which both prompted the creation of the Visigoths and Ostrogoths around newly emergent dynasties and helped bring about the fall of the Roman Empire.
Author: Thomas S. Burns
Publisher: Coronet Books
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 160
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Hodgkin
Publisher:
Published: 1891
Total Pages: 510
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