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A companion to Ostrogothic Italy /

"A Companion to Ostrogothic Italy is a concise yet comprehensive cutting edge survey of the rise and fall of Italy's first barbarian kingdom, the Ostrogothic state (ca. 489-554 CE). The volume's 18 essays provide readers with probing syntheses of recent scholarship on key topics, from...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Arnold, Jonathan J., 1980- (Editor ), Bjornlie, M. Shane, 1969- (Editor ), Sessa, Kristina (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Colección:Brill's companions to European history, volume 9
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Jonathan J. Arnold, M. Shane Bjornlie and Kristina Sessa
  • Part 1. The state
  • The Ostrogothic Kingdom : ideologies and transitions / Gerda Heydemann
  • Governmental administration / M. Shane Bjornlie
  • Ostrogothic provinces : administration and ideology / Jonathan J. Arnold
  • Ostrogothic cities / Federico Marazzi
  • The Senate at Rome in Ostrogothic Italy / Christine Radtki
  • The law / Sean Lafferty
  • The Ostrogothic military / Guy Halsall
  • Part 2. Culture and society
  • Goths and Gothic identity in the Ostrogothic Kingdom / Brian Swain
  • Urban life and culture / Deborah M. Deliyannis
  • Landowning and labour in the rural economy / Cam Grey
  • The heroine and the historian : Procopius of Caesarea on the troubled reign of Queen Amalasuentha / Kate Cooper
  • Intellectual culture and literary practices / Natalia Lozovsky
  • Art and architecture / Mark J. Johnson
  • Italy's environment in the 5th and 6th centuries : barbarizing the Bel Paese / Paolo Squatriti
  • Part 3. Religion
  • The Roman Church and its bishops / Kristina Sessa
  • Bishops, ecclesiastical institutions, and the Ostrogothic regime / Rita Lizzi Testa
  • Mapping the church and asceticism in Ostrogothic Italy / Rita Lizzi Testa
  • Religious diversity / Samuel Cohen
  • Glossary of select sources.