Ostrogoths Archive
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The Death Toll of Justinian’s Plague and Its Effects on the Byzantine Empire
Posted on April 4, 2013 | No CommentsIn 541 a plague arrived in Egypt and rapidly began to spread. The following account of the beginning of the plague, while clearly an exaggeration still shows the impact of the disease. -
West versus East: the Sixth Century Literary Sources and Justinian’s Wars
Posted on November 6, 2012 | No CommentsMost scholars of the Byzantine empire have given an important role to Justinian's invasion of Italy during the sixth century - it has been envisioned as a grand reconquest of the West by the East. -
Codex Argenteus and political ideology in the Ostrogothic kingdom
Posted on July 15, 2012 | No CommentsOne of the most intriguing manuscripts of late Antiquity, the early-6th - century Codex Argenteus, combines elements typical of lavish Greek and Latin bibles with yet another significant aspect. -
The Roman elite and the power of the past: continuity and change in Ostrogothic Italy
Posted on March 25, 2012 | No CommentsThis thesis examines the changes forced upon the Roman elite in the evolving political climate of Ostrogothic Italy. -
Byzantines, Goths and Lombards in Italy: Jewellery, Dress and Cultural Interactions
Posted on December 5, 2011 | No CommentsThe temptation is naturally to seek differences or contrasts from one power to another, to reinforce the conflict and tension identified in contemporary historians. -
Theoderic, the Goths, and the Restoration of the Roman Empire
Posted on October 13, 2011 | No CommentsTheoderic, the Goths, and the Restoration of the Roman Empire By Jonathan J. Arnold PhD Dissertation, University of Michigan, 2008 Abstract: This dissertation places “Ostrogothic Italy,” conventionally seen as a... -
The role of the nobility in the creation of Gallo-Frankish society in the late fifth and sixth centuries AD
Posted on October 9, 2011 | No CommentsThe role of the nobility in the creation of Gallo-Frankish society in the late fifth and sixth centuries AD Wood, Catrin Mair Lewis PhD Thesis, University of Nottingham (2002) Abstract The... -
The Ostrogoths in Italy
Posted on July 20, 2011 | No CommentsThe Ostrogoths in Italy By Biagio Saitta Polis: Revista de ideas y formas políticas de la Antigüedad Clásica, Vol. 11 (1999) Introduction: The attempt at Roman-Germanic cohabitation which Odoacer (Odovacar)... -
The Edictum Theoderici: A Study of a Roman Legal Document from Ostrogothic Italy
Posted on May 26, 2011 | No CommentsThe Edictum Theoderici: A Study of a Roman Legal Document from Ostrogothic Italy By Sean D.W. Lafferty PhD Dissertation, University of Toronto, 2010 Abstract: This is a study of a...
