A Companion to Ostrogothic Italy

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A Companion to Ostrogothic Italy ...

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A Companion to Ostrogothic Italy Edited by Jonathan J. Arnold M. Shane Bjornlie Kristina Sessa LEIDEN | BOSTON ...

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Contents Foreword vii List of Figures viii List of Contributors ix 1 Introduction 1 Jonathan J. Arnold, M. Shane Bjornlie, and K ...

vi contents 10 Urban Life and Culture 234 Deborah M. Deliyannis 11 Landowning and Labour in the Rural Economy 263 Cam Grey 12 Th ...

Foreword The genesis and completion of this volume is indebted to the avid interest of a great many people who realized that a c ...

List of Figures 1.1 Map of Europe and the Mediterranean, ca. 1.2 Map of Ostrogothic provinces, ca. 1.3 Map of 6th-century Rome ...

List of Contributors Jonathan J. Arnold is Associate Professor of History and Director of Classics at the University of Tulsa, O ...

x list of contributors Cam Grey is Associate Professor in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. ...

List Of Contributors xi Natalia Lozovsky is a Research Associate at the Office for the History of Science and Technology at the ...

xii list of contributors Brian Swain is an Assistant Professor of History at Kennesaw State University. He studies the barbarian ...

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2 Arnold, Bjornlie, and Sessa Roman structures and ideas endured.2 Alternatively, other scholars underline the essential ‘barbar ...

Introduction 3 sides of the debate. By all accounts, the history of the Ostrogothic regime is messy with contradictions; but it ...

4 Arnold, Bjornlie, and Sessa A broad approach is especially warranted given recent scholarly emphasis on the deep foundations o ...

Introduction 5 Ostrogoths: From the Migration Period to the Sixth Century (2007), offer impor- tant insights into specific debat ...

6 Arnold, Bjornlie, and Sessa heuristic divergence is not only unavoidable but also more accurately reflects the current state o ...

Introduction 7 significant non-military administrative posts to local Roman elites. As recent work has shown, this trend in the ...