Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of rulers
- Terminology and vocabulary
- List of abbreviations
- Map of Ostrogothic Italy
- Introduction: Studying the barbarians in late antiquity
- 1 Ethnicity, ethnography and community in the fifth and sixth centuries
- 2 The Ravenna government and ethnographic ideology: from civilitas to bellicositas
- 3 Individual reactions to ideology I: names, language and profession
- 4 Complementary and competing ideals of community: Italy and the Roman Empire
- 5 Individual reactions to ideology II: soldiers, civilians and political allegiance
- 6 Catholic communities and Christian Empire
- 7 Individual reactions to ideology III: Catholics and Arians
- 8 The origin of the Goths and Balkan military culture
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 The inquiry into Gundila's property: a translation and chronology
- Appendix 2 The Germanic culture construct
- Appendix 3 Archeological and toponymic research on Ostrogothic Italy
- Appendix 4 Dress, hairstyle and military customs
- Prosopographical Appendix: A prosopography of Goths in Italy, 489–554
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought Fourth Series
Appendix 1 - The inquiry into Gundila's property: a translation and chronology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of rulers
- Terminology and vocabulary
- List of abbreviations
- Map of Ostrogothic Italy
- Introduction: Studying the barbarians in late antiquity
- 1 Ethnicity, ethnography and community in the fifth and sixth centuries
- 2 The Ravenna government and ethnographic ideology: from civilitas to bellicositas
- 3 Individual reactions to ideology I: names, language and profession
- 4 Complementary and competing ideals of community: Italy and the Roman Empire
- 5 Individual reactions to ideology II: soldiers, civilians and political allegiance
- 6 Catholic communities and Christian Empire
- 7 Individual reactions to ideology III: Catholics and Arians
- 8 The origin of the Goths and Balkan military culture
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 The inquiry into Gundila's property: a translation and chronology
- Appendix 2 The Germanic culture construct
- Appendix 3 Archeological and toponymic research on Ostrogothic Italy
- Appendix 4 Dress, hairstyle and military customs
- Prosopographical Appendix: A prosopography of Goths in Italy, 489–554
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought Fourth Series
Summary
TRANSLATION OF PItal49 (inquest of 557: two attached documents)
… and that it should be returned by the abbot Anastasius, and that he should possess it … Afterwards, he came with his sons, fully converted from his sin [malus] … [I swear,] by the four evangelists that these things, which I have said …
[End of earlier document. In a different hand:]
In the thirty-first year of the reign of our lord Justinian, ever Augustus, and in the sixteenth year after the consulate of Basilius, in the fifth indiction [A.D. 557], on the third of June. I have written this at the request of Sitza, vir honestus, [?com …] …
… that he [Sitza] had been invited by the order of Adeodatus, vir spectabilis, vicarius urbis emininentissimi praefecti, before Andreas, vir strenuus, executor … [and the] representative of the monastery of St. Aelia … and St. Stephanus, so that … he should say what he knew, by the holy evangelists … [and] whence he knew it.
[SITZA:] “ … Gundila [wished to be] converted by [Vig]ilius, and in our faith [lex nostra] he converted him … They had occupied it … [or the Goths had occupied it … by Tzalico], and whatever he was able to find. […]
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- People and Identity in Ostrogothic Italy, 489–554 , pp. 321 - 325Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997