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020			_a9781107294271 (ebook)
020			_z9781107054400 (hardback)
020			_z9781107679474 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
050	0	0	_aDG507 _b.A76 2014
082	0	0	_a945/.01092 B _223
100	1		_aArnold, Jonathan J., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aTheoderic and the Roman Imperial Restoration / _cJonathan J. Arnold.
246	3		_aTheoderic & the Roman Imperial Restoration
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2014.
300			_a1 online resource (354 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aThis book provides a new interpretation of the fall of the Roman Empire and the 'barbarian' kingdom known conventionally as Ostrogothic Italy. Relying primarily on Italian textual and material evidence, and in particular the works of Cassiodorus and Ennodius, Jonathan J. Arnold argues that contemporary Italo-Romans viewed the Ostrogothic kingdom as the Western Roman Empire and its 'barbarian' king, Theoderic (r.489/93–526), as its emperor. Investigating conceptions of Romanness, Arnold explains how the Roman past, both immediate and distant, allowed Theoderic and his Goths to find acceptance in Italy as Romans, with roles essential to the Empire's perceived recovery. Theoderic and the Roman Imperial Restoration demonstrates how Theoderic's careful attention to imperial traditions, good governance, and reconquest followed by the re-Romanization of lost imperial territories contributed to contemporary sentiments of imperial resurgence and a golden age. There was no need for Justinian to restore the Western Empire: Theoderic had already done so.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107054400
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107294271
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