Amalasuintha
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Author | : Marcelle Thiebaux |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2019-05-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0429618980 |
Download The Writings of Medieval Women Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Published in 1994: The period surveyed in this anthology extends from the eve of Christianity's triumph, in the third century, to the new age of expansion in the fifteenth century, an age marked by the advent of printing pressed, the European discovery of the Caribbean islands, which Columbus called the Indies, the relentless stripping of medieval altars by Church reformists, and perhaps a diminution of female autonomy.
Author | : Marcelle Theibaux |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 2013-06-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1135507856 |
Download The Writings of Medieval Women Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"Royal and saintly women are well-represented here, with the welcome addition of women from the Mediterranean arc...Garland has done a solid job of presenting this book." -- Arthuriana "The Anthology gives a fine sense of the great range of women's writing in the Middle Ages." -- Medium Aevum
Author | : Hans-Ulrich Wiemer |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 660 |
Release | : 2023-07-25 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0300254431 |
Download Theoderic the Great Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The first full-scale history of Theoderic and the Goths in more than seventy-five years, tracing the transformation of a divided kingdom into a great power In the year 493, the leader of a vast confederation of Gothic warriors, their wives, and children personally cut down Odoacer, the man famous for deposing the last Roman emperor in 476. That leader became Theoderic the Great (454-526). This engaging history of his life and reign immerses readers in the world of the warrior-king who ushered in decades of peace and stability in Italy as king of Goths and Romans. Theoderic transformed his roving "warrior nation" from the periphery of the Roman world into a standing army that protected his taxpaying Roman subjects with the support of the Roman elite. With a ruling strategy of "integration through separation," Theoderic not only stabilized Italy but also extended his kingdom to the western Balkans, southern France, and the Iberian Peninsula. Using sources as diverse as letters, poetry, coins, and mosaics, Hans-Ulrich Wiemer brings readers into the world of Theoderic's court, from Gothic warriors and their families to the notables, artisans, and shopkeepers of Rome and Ravenna to the peasants and enslaved people who tilled the soil on grand rural estates. This book offers a fascinating history of the leader who brought peace to Italy after the disintegration of the Roman Empire.
Author | : Massimiliano Vitiello |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2017-11-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 081224947X |
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As mother, as regent, and as queen, Amalasuintha struggled at the palace of Ravenna to maintain the Ostrogothic dynasty. Massimiliano Vitiello demonstrates the ways in which her life shows the influence of both Western and Eastern imperial models on the formation of female political power in the post-Roman world.
Author | : J. A. S. Evans |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2002-01-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134559763 |
Download The Age of Justinian Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Age of Justinian examines the reign of the great emperor Justinian (527-565) and his wife Theodora, who advanced from the theatre to the throne. The origins of the irrevocable split between East and West, between the Byzantine and the Persian Empire are chronicled, which continue up to the present day. The book looks at the social structure of sixth century Byzantium, and the neighbours that surrounded the empire. It also deals with Justinian's wars, which restored Italy, Africa and a part of Spain to the empire.
Author | : Massimiliano Vitiello |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2014-07-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1442669330 |
Download Theodahad Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Educated in Platonic philosophy rather than the military arts, the Ostrogothic king Theodahad was never meant to rule. His unexpected nomination as co-regent by his cousin Queen Amalasuintha plunged him into the intrigues of the Gothic court, and Theodahad soon conspired to assassinate the queen. But, once alone on the throne, his lack of political experience and military skill made him ineffective at best and dangerously incompetent at worst. Defeated by the Byzantine emperor Justinian, Theodahad was killed by his own subjects. In Theodahad, Massimiliano Vitiello rigorously investigates the ancient sources in order to reconstruct the events of Theodahad’s life and the contours of sixth-century diplomacy and political intrigues. Painting a picture of an unlikely king whose reign helped spell the end of Ostrogothic Italy, Vitiello’s book not only illuminates Theodahad’s own life but also offers new insight into the sixth-century Mediterranean world.
Author | : Herwig Wolfram |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 644 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520069831 |
Download History of the Goths Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Provides an overview on the formation of the Gothic tribes, their migrations, and the later history of the Ostrogothic and Visigothic settlements.
Author | : Patrick Amory |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 2003-10-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521526357 |
Download People and Identity in Ostrogothic Italy, 489-554 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The barbarians of the fifth and sixth centuries were long thought to be races, tribes or ethnic groups who toppled the Roman Empire and racist, nationalist assumptions about the composition of the barbarian groups still permeate much scholarship on the subject. This book proposes a new view, through a case-study of the Goths of Italy between 489 and 554. It contains a detailed examination of the personal details and biographies of 379 individuals and compares their behaviour with ideological texts of the time. This inquiry suggests wholly new ways of understanding the appearance of barbarian groups and the end of the western Roman Empire, as well as proposing new models of regional and professional loyalty and group cohesion. In addition, the book proposes a complete reinterpretation of the evolution of Christian conceptions of community, and of so-called 'Germanic' Arianism.
Author | : Herwig Wolfram |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2005-03-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520244907 |
Download The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
An account of the Germanic peoples and their kingdom between the 3rd and 8th centuries, as they invaded, settled in and transformed the Roman empire.
Author | : James Allan Evans |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2003-10-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0292702701 |
Download The Empress Theodora Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Presents a biography of the burlesqe actress who became the trusted partner of Byzantine emperor Justinian in both marriage and government affairs.