A History Of The Ostrogoths
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A History Of The Ostrogoths
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Author : Thomas S. Burns
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1991-02-22
A History Of The Ostrogoths written by Thomas S. Burns and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-02-22 with History categories.
"Thorough and convincing... likely to become the standard work on the subject." --Library Journal "Highly readable." --Medieval Literature "A major work of synthesis." --Walter E. Kaegi "Burns has achieved much for the modern study of Ostrogoths." --Antiquaries Journal
Cassiodorus Jordanes And The History Of The Goths
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Author : Arne Søby Christensen
language : en
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Release Date : 2002
Cassiodorus Jordanes And The History Of The Goths written by Arne Søby Christensen and has been published by Museum Tusculanum Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
This book is a study in the myth of the origins and early history of the Goths as told in the Getica written by Jordanes in AD 551. Jordanes claimed they emigrated from the island of Scandza (Sweden) in 1490 BC, thus giving them a history of more than two thousand years. He found this narrative in Cassiodorus' Gothic history, which is now lost. The present study demonstrates that Cassiodorus and Jordanes did not base their accounts on a living Gothic tradition of the past, as the Getica would have us believe. On the contrary, they got their information only from the Graeco-Roman literature. The Greeks and Romans, however, did not know of the Goths until the middle of the third century AD. Consequently, Cassiodorus and Jordanes created a Gothic history partly through an erudite exploitation of the names of foreign peoples, and partly by using the narratives about other peoples' history as if they belonged to the Goths. The history of the Migrations therefore must be reconsidered.
History Of The Goths
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Author : Herwig Wolfram
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1988
History Of The Goths written by Herwig Wolfram and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with History categories.
Provides an overview on the formation of the Gothic tribes, their migrations, and the later history of the Ostrogothic and Visigothic settlements.
The Ostrogoths
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Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-05-16
The Ostrogoths written by Charles River Charles River Editors and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-16 with categories.
*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "These later divided Gotland into three parts, so that Graip the eldest got the northern 3rd, Guti the middle 3rd, and Gunfjaun the youngest had the south. Then, over a long time, the people descended from these three multiplied so much that the land couldn't support them all. So they selected every 3rd person by lot to leave, with the right to keep and take away with them everything they owned except for their land. They were unwilling to leave then, but went to instead Torsburgen and settled there. But afterwards the country (i.e. Gotland) would not tolerate them, and drove them away." - Jordanes, The Origin and Deeds of the Goths The birth of Europe as people know it today was hardly an easy and effortless process. The Old World was reshaped by centuries of continuous wars, raids, and the falls and rises of empires. The most turbulent of these events happened at the beginning of the Middle Ages, from the 3rd-7th centuries CE. This was the time when the old slave society gave way to the feudal system that marked the latter Middle Ages, and it was also a period of battles between the Roman Empire and various barbarian groups. The Roman emperors waged wars, made and broke alliances, and bribed and negotiated with chieftains of various "barbarian" tribes to preserve the territorial integrity of their Empires, but the razor-edge division between the civilized world of the Romans and that of the "savages" that threatened their borders was dulling with every decade. In fact, the constant need for army recruits swelled the Roman legions with barbarian foederati, a phenomenon that forced both the Romans and Byzantines to use a very subtle way of pitting the barbarian tribes against each other via diplomatic schemes and bountiful rewards. A new religion was also taking root, and Christianity became a reason for both unification and division as different people adopted different variations of its teachings. It goes without saying that the Goths played an integral part in the history of Europe during this time, and they remain among the most notorious and controversial groups in history. By the 4th century CE, the Goths were among the prominent barbarian groups who became a threat to the Roman Empire, but they also had contacts with the Romans well before then, and they even traded for awhile. The two branches of the Goths that are best known, the Visigoths and Ostrogoths, stared down the Roman Empire as it neared its collapse and supplanted it with a kingdom in Italy in the 5th and 6th centuries respectively. The Visigoth leader Alaric and the Ostrogoth leader Theodoric are still well-known names due to their deeds and reigns in Europe. In addition to the various conflicts with Rome, the ancient author Jordanes has helped keep the Goths relevant with his seminal work The Origin and Deeds of the Goths, which traces the group's history all the way back to about 1500 BCE and covers their migrations and wars on the European continent. While some still discount Jordanes' work as outright fiction, most historians still believe that it's a valuable historical work, and they continue to rely on it in attempts to study and trace the history of the Goths and their various branches over time. The Ostrogoths: The History and Legacy of the Group that Established a Kingdom in Italy after the Collapse of Ancient Rome looks at the history of the Ostrogoths, from their origins to their rise in the 6th century. Along with pictures depicting important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Ostrogoths like never before.
The Origin And Deeds Of The Goths
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Author : Jordanes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-06-01
The Origin And Deeds Of The Goths written by Jordanes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-01 with Civilization, Medieval categories.
Jordanes, as he himself tells us a couple of times, was of Gothic descent and wrote this work as a summary of Cassiodorus' much longer treatment of the history of the Goths. Because Cassiodorus' book no longer survives, Jordanes' treatment is often our only source for some of the Gothic history it describes. He wrote the Getica during the later stages of the reign of Justinian, not too long after the demise of the Ostrogothic kingdom in Italy. Jordanes divided his work, apart from the brief introduction and conclusion, into four main sections (reflected in the contents below). These are 1) a Geographical Introduction; 2) the United Goths; 3) the Visigoths; 4) and the Ostrogoths. Other large sections, such as the discussion of the Huns, he treats as digressions of a sort (the more interesting or important of these have been added to the contents below). Mierow prefaces his translation with a detailed literary analysis of all the topics in the text; this is not, however, reproduced here.
A History Of The Ostro Goths
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Author : Thomas S. Burns
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
A History Of The Ostro Goths written by Thomas S. Burns and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Goths categories.
The Origin And Deeds Of The Goths
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Author : Jordanes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1908
The Origin And Deeds Of The Goths written by Jordanes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1908 with Germanic peoples categories.
The Goths
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Author : Henry Bradley
language : en
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Release Date : 1890
The Goths written by Henry Bradley and has been published by Рипол Классик this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with History categories.
The Origin And Deeds Of The Goths
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Author : Jordanes
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-01-13
The Origin And Deeds Of The Goths written by Jordanes and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-13 with History categories.
De origine actibusque Getarum, or the Getica, is a summary of the now lost account by Cassiodorus of the origin and history of the Gothic people. It tells of the great battles between the Goths and Romans, of the First Great Race War against Europe waged by the Huns under Attila, the Gothic involvement in the great sacking of Rome-and much, much more. Jordanes' work is the single most important source on the origin and migration of the Goths, Ostrogoths and Visigoths. Starting with a fictionalized account of Gothic origins and travels, the Getica then deals with the very real story of the first meeting between Roman and Gothic forces on the eastern borders of the Empire in the present-day north Balkans. It tells of the initial clashes between Roman and Goth, and of how they were eventually forced to become allies against the invasion of Europe by the Asiatic hordes under Attila the Hun. Once that invasion was warded off, the story continues with the adventures of the Ostrogoths, the Visigoths, Gaul, Spain, the last Gothic rulers of the Western Roman Empire, their part in the final fall of Rome and their descendant's role in the Eastern Roman Empire. The Getica is, even after 1,500 years, still a riveting read and brimming with adventure, despair, heroism and incredible deeds which helped shape Europe, and a vital source for early Gothic, Slavic, Roman and Hunnish history. This version has been completely reset and follows the identical margin notes, introduction and literary overview of Charles C. Mierow's Princeton University edition.
History Of The Kings Of The Goths Vandals And Suevi
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Author : Saint Isidore (of Seville)
language : en
Publisher: Brill Archive
Release Date : 1966
History Of The Kings Of The Goths Vandals And Suevi written by Saint Isidore (of Seville) and has been published by Brill Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Goths categories.