Theoderic And The Roman Imperial Restoration

Theoderic and the Roman Imperial Restoration offers a new interpretation of the fall of Rome and the "barbarian" successor state known as Ostrogothic Italy. Relying primarily on Italian textual and material evidence, Jonathan J. Arnold demonstrates that the subjects of the Ostrogothic kingdom viewed it as a revived Roman Empire and its king, Theoderic, as its emperor. Most accounts of Roman history end with the fall of Rome in 476 or see the Ostrogothic kingdom as a barbarous imitator. This book, however, challenges such views, placing the Theoderican epoch firmly within the continuum of Roman history. 9781107054400 1107054400 353 History NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WOWfAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl&source=gbs_api en

• • Author: Jonathan J. Arnold
• • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• • Publication Date: Feb 24, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 354 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1107054400
• • ISBN-13: 9781107054400