Autor(en)

Duckett, Eleanor Shipley:

Verlag / Jahr

University of Michigan Press., 1961.

Format / Einband

kart. / Paperback. 219 S.

Sprache

Englisch

Gewicht

ca. 472 g

Bestell-Nr

1230551

Bemerkungen

Umschlag braunfleckig, innen gut und sauber / Cover brown-stained, inside good and clean - PREFACE -- The gateway to the middle ages is made up of three parts. This one deals with Italy in the sixth century. -- This “gateway” opened with the passing of Italy, seat of government of the Western part of the Roman Empire, into rude barbarian hands, when Ravenna and Rome, chief cities of this Roman Empire in the West, fell in 476 to the invader Odovacar and his Germanic hordes; when, in his turn, Odovacar was forced, some seventeen years later, to yield to another barbarian conqueror, who seized his throne at Ravenna, overran his kingdom, killed him by his own hand, and thus became lord of Italy and its people. -- Here, then, stretching before us, we see the Middle Ages. This Gothic barbarian was to be known as Theodoric the Great. Ignorant himself both of diplomacy and of culture, face to face with the skill and experience of the Romans whom he was to rule, his mind conceived the ideal of an Italy under himself as king, supported in counsel and in learning by the finest of his Roman subjects. His should be a twofold state, uniting the young barbarian energy of muscle and daring with the Roman genius and knowledge in matters of law and administration. -- And so he worked until he died in 526, and Italy once more fell upon strife. The Roman Empire of the East, ruled from Constantinople, sent out its armies to regain from barbarian control this Western portion of its imperial dominion.

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