Costambeys, M 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4201-5895
(2016)
The Legacy of Theoderic.
Journal of Roman Studies, 106.
pp. 249-263.
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Abstract
In the penultimate sentence of his Historia Romana, Paul the Deacon inscribes a solid full-stop to his brief sketch of Ostrogothic Italy: having killed Totila, the eunuch Narses, he says, universamque Italiam ad reipublicae iura reduxit'. Although the phrase reipublicae iura exemplifies the studied ambiguity with which Paul delighted to tantalize his readers, the whole statement can be understood as a judgement on Theoderic's regime that many modern historians of Late Antiquity have shared. Whatever innovations the Ostrogoths had attempted, in the end they came to nothing: Theoderic and his short-lived successors made no lasting imprint, leaving few identifiable traces even in archaeology.
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| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Feb 2017 10:23 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Jan 2023 07:19 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0075435816000587 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3005655 |
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