Medievalists.net » Odoacer http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Goths, Lombards, Romans, and Greeks: Creating Identity in Early Medieval Italy http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/16/goths-lombards-romans-greeks-creating-identity-early-medieval-italy/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/16/goths-lombards-romans-greeks-creating-identity-early-medieval-italy/#comments Wed, 16 Jul 2014 12:26:44 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51152 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/16/goths-lombards-romans-greeks-creating-identity-early-medieval-italy/feed/ 0 Constantius and the Visigothic Settlement in Gaul http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/21/constantius-and-the-visigothic-settlement-in-gaul/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/21/constantius-and-the-visigothic-settlement-in-gaul/#comments Sat, 22 Sep 2012 02:37:55 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35872 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.

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