A companion to Ostrogothic Italy / / edited by Jonathan J. Arnold, M. Shane Bjornlie, Kristina Sessa.
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 the Ostrogothic...
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| Superior document: | Brill's Companions to European History, Volume 9 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016. ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's companions to European history ;
Volume 9. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (563 p.) :; illustrations, maps |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- 1 Introduction / Jonathan J. Arnold , M. Shane Bjornlie and Kristina Sessa
- 2 The Ostrogothic Kingdom: Ideologies and Transitions / Gerda Heydemann
- 3 Governmental Administration / M. Shane Bjornlie
- 4 Ostrogothic Provinces: Administration and Ideology / Jonathan J. Arnold
- 5 Ostrogothic Cities / Federico Marazzi
- 6 The Senate at Rome in Ostrogothic Italy / Christine Radtki
- 7 The Law / Sean Lafferty
- 8 The Ostrogothic Military / Guy Halsall
- 9 Goths and Gothic Identity in the Ostrogothic Kingdom / Brian Swain
- 10 Urban Life and Culture / Deborah M. Deliyannis
- 11 Landowning and Labour in the Rural Economy / Cam Grey
- 12 The Heroine and the Historian: Procopius of Caesarea on the Troubled Reign of Queen Amalasuentha / Kate Cooper
- 13 Intellectual Culture and Literary Practices / Natalia Lozovsky
- 14 Art and Architecture / Mark J Johnson
- 15 Barbarizing the Bel Paese: Environmental History in Ostrogothic Italy / Paolo Squatriti
- 16 The Roman Church and its Bishops / Kristina Sessa
- 17 Bishops, Ecclesiastical Institutions, and the Ostrogothic Regime / Rita Lizzi Testa
- 18 Mapping the Church and Asceticism in Ostrogothic Italy / Rita Lizzi Testa
- 19 Religious Diversity / Samuel Cohen
- Glossary of Select Sources
- Index.