Theoderic and the Roman Imperial Restoration

This 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'' ...