6 The Senate at Rome in Ostrogothic Italy

Radtki, Christine

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“…417–418; Sotinel, , p. 519). Instead of long‐term Ostrogothic‐eastern Roman tension, it has been suggested that his execution of Boethius and Symmachus was driven by a short‐term succession dispute following the death of Eutharic, his son‐in‐law, in 522 (Heather, , p. 250; Radtki, , pp. 137–139).…”

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Diplomatic relations between the eastern Roman empire and the “barbarian” successor states, 527–565

Sarantis

2018

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Diplomatic relations between the eastern Roman emperor, Justinian, and “barbarian” Ostrogothic, Vandal, Visigothic, and Frankish successor states in Italy, Africa, Spain, and Gaul, were framed by competing claims to Romanitas during a period often viewed as a crossroads between Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Modern works examining these relations and the wars which resulted disagree as to whether the ruling elites of the successor states were politically “integrated” into Roman society or were barbarian interlopers, awkwardly trying to balance the interests of Germanic military aristocracies and native Roman senatorial and ecclesiastical elites. They thus reflect competing eastern Roman and western ideologies in the aftermath of the political disintegration of the western Roman empire in the fifth century.

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Diplomatic relations between the eastern Roman empire and the “barbarian” successor states, 527–565

Sarantis

2018

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“…Critical here was the fact that the Goths were not invaders but had been invited, and Theodoric worked to use the Roman administration (including the Senate) to further legitimate his rule. Yet it was under his rule that the senatorial elite would begin to lose their grasp on their far‐flung properties, while local aristocracies emerged close to the lands they held (on the government of the Ostrogoths and its relationship to the Senate, see Bjornlie, and Radtki, ). What we know about the Gothic elite (almost entirely from “non‐Gothic” sources) is that they existed almost in parallel with a Roman aristocracy in transition (Amory, , pp.…”

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Aristocracies in early medieval Italy, ca. 500–1000 CE

Schoolman

2018

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In the 500 years after the political collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century CE, various new groups entered Italy, recasting the ranks of the wealthiest and most powerful individuals and local elites. In the social hierarchy of the late fifth century, Ostrogothic elite would exist in parallel with the late Roman aristocracy, while later arrivals—Lombards, Byzantines, and Franks, among others—would form entirely new aristocracies, bound primarily by local landownership and management, leaving behind the administrative apparatus of the late Roman Empire. Consequently, Italian aristocracies, especially at their highest levels, tended to reflect the conditions of their political systems through the tenth century, when changing pressures caused many family groups of the social and political elite to take on the qualities of hereditary nobility. This article traces the various developments of aristocracies, their composition, and contemporary definitions of dominant groups.

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The Making of Medieval Rome

Dey

2021

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Integrating the written sources with Rome's surviving remains and, most importantly, with the results of the past half-century's worth of medieval archaeology in the city, The Making of Medieval Rome is the first in-depth profile of Rome's transformation over a millennium to appear in any language in over forty years. Though the main focus rests on Rome's urban trajectory in topographical, architectural, and archaeological terms, Hendrik folds aspects of ecclesiastical, political, social, military, economic, and intellectual history into the narrative in order to illustrate how and why the cityscape evolved as it did during the thousand years between the end of the Roman Empire and the start of the Renaissance. A wide-ranging synthesis of decades' worth of specialized research and remarkable archaeological discoveries, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in how and why the ancient imperial capital transformed into the spiritual heart of Western Christendom.

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6 The Senate at Rome in Ostrogothic Italy

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Diplomatic relations between the eastern Roman empire and the “barbarian” successor states, 527–565

Diplomatic relations between the eastern Roman empire and the “barbarian” successor states, 527–565

Aristocracies in early medieval Italy, ca. 500–1000 CE

The Making of Medieval Rome

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