Medievalists.net » Patrick Amory 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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