This book provides a new interpretation of the fall of the Roman Empire and the" barbarian"
kingdom known conventionally as Ostrogothic Italy. Relying primarily on Italian textual and …

Recent research in late antique and early medieval history has paid much attention to
'Ethnogenesis'. The historical model associated with this term explains the change from the …

Meanwhile, in the west Prosper Tiro, the first edition of whose chronicle appeared in the mid
440s, stated that in 419," The patrician Constantius made peace with Wallia, giving to him …

Jordanes has probably never had it so good, at least not for a long time. The author of the
Romana and the Getica has been rehabilitated in recent years. No longer can he be …

In 418/419 the Goths under Wallia were settled in Aquitania Secunda at the instigation of
Flavius Constantius, who had married the emperor's half-sister Galla Placidia at the start of …

Alaric has often been seen as the leader of the Visigothic people, from 395 to his death in
410. Before his rebellion against the Roman Empire in 395, he served in the Roman military …

In 1988, Walter Goffart published a ground-breaking monograph entitled The Narrators of
Barbarian History, thus canonizing–in both the academic world and the wider collective …

Between c. 250 and c. 650, the way the past was seen, recorded and interpreted for a
contemporary audience changed fundamentally. Only since the 1970s have the key …

This dissertation explores the intersection of political and ethnic conflict during the emperor
Justinian's wars of reconquest through the figure and texts of Jordanes, the earliest …

Este artículo se centra en el papel de las descripciones geográficas de la Getica de
Jordanes en relación con la evolución cultural del pueblo godo. Para ello, se atiende tanto a …