Theoderic and the Roman Imperial Restoration

Theoderic and the Roman Imperial Restoration
ISBN-10
1107054400
ISBN-13
9781107054400
Category
History
Pages
354
Language
English
Published
2014-02-24
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
Jonathan J. Arnold

Description

Theoderic and the Roman Imperial Restoration offers a new interpretation of the fall of Rome and the "barbarian" successor state known as Ostrogothic Italy. Relying primarily on Italian textual and material evidence, Jonathan J. Arnold demonstrates that the subjects of the Ostrogothic kingdom viewed it as a revived Roman Empire and its king, Theoderic, as its emperor. Most accounts of Roman history end with the fall of Rome in 476 or see the Ostrogothic kingdom as a barbarous imitator. This book, however, challenges such views, placing the Theoderican epoch firmly within the continuum of Roman history.

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