People and identity in Ostrogothic Italy, 489-554

Abstract

Preface Map of Ostrogothic Italy List of rulers Introduction: studying the barbarians in late antiquity 1. Ethnicity, ethnography and community in the fifth and sixth centuries 2. The Ravenna government and ethnographic identity: from civitas to bellicositas 3. Individual reactions to ideology. I: names, language and profession 4. Complementary and competing ideals of community: Italy and the Roman empire 5. Individual reactions to ideology. II: soldiers, civilians and political allegiance 6. Catholic communities and Christian empire 7. Individual reactions to ideology. III: Catholics and Arians 8. The origin of the Goths and Balkan military culture Conclusion Appendix 1: the inquiry into Gundila's property Appendix 2: the Germanic culture construct Appendix 3: archaeological and toponymic research on Ostrogothic Italy Appendix 4: dress, hairstyle and military customs Prosopographical appendix: a prosopography of the Goths in Italy, 489-554.

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