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Goths, Lombards, Romans, and Greeks: Creating Identity in Early Medieval Italy

July 16, 2014 By Medievalists.net

This essay explores how two different non-Roman historians represented the past to their peoples: the Gothic historian Jordanes’ sixth-century work, the Getica, and the eighth-century Lombard historian Paul the Deacons’ History of the Lombards.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Barbarians, Carolingian Renaissance, Carolingians, Early Middle Ages, Eighth Century, Ethnography, Fall of the Roman Empire, Fifth Century, Franks, Germania, Getica, Goths, Greek, Herwig Wolfram, Historiography, History of the Lombards, Italo-Greek, Italy, Jordanes, Lombards, Nationalism, Odoacer, Patrick Amory, Paul the Deacon (Paulus Diaconus), Roman Empire, Sixth Century

Constantius and the Visigothic Settlement in Gaul

September 21, 2012 By Medievalists.net

Visigothic crown

The emperor Honorius made an attempt during his reign to calm the turbulent region of Gaul by assigning one of his generals to the area and appointing him as the head of the regions armies.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Barbarians, Constantius III, Early Middle Ages, Emperor Honorius, Gaul, Germany, Odoacer, Roman Empire, Romulus, Theodosius I, Valentinian III, Visigoths