People and Identity in Ostrogothic Italy, 489-554

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Cambridge University Press, 16 окт. 2003 г. - Всего страниц: 523
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.
 

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Ethnicity ethnography and community in the fifth and sixth centuries
13
The Ravenna government and ethnographic ideology from civilitas to bellicositas
43
Individual reactions to ideology I names language and profession
86
Complementary and competing ideals of community Italy and the Roman Empire
109
Individual reactions to ideology II soldiers civilians and political allegiance
149
Catholic communities and Christian Empire
195
Individual reactions to ideology III Catholics and Arians
236
The origin of the Goths and Balkan military culture
277
The inquiry into Gundilas property a translation and chronology
321
The Germanic culture construct
326
Archeological and toponymic research on Ostrogothic Italy
332
Dress hairstyle and military customs
338
A prosopography of Goths in Italy 489554
348
Bibliography
487
Index
515
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Conclusion
314

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