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  • 6 - Ostrogothic Italy and the Lombard invasions

  • from PART I - THE SIXTH CENTURY
  • Edited by Paul Fouracre, University of Manchester
  • Book:
    The New Cambridge Medieval History
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    08 December 2005, pp 140-161

  • Summary

    Italy was now populated, according to the contemporary formula, by Goths and Romans. The areas in which the newcomers lived were the most sensitive regions militarily, and Goths and Romans could be distinguished with reference to the functions which they fulfilled in society, military and civilian respectively: While the army of the Goths makes war, the Roman may live in peace. The Gothic general Tuluin, who had gained large estates after the war in Burgundy, was elevated to the rank of patricius praesentalis. From about the time of the death of Theoderic a Germanic people, the Lombards, had been settling south of the Danube in the old province of Pannonia. They had, in general, been allies of the Byzantines, but had enjoyed less exposure to Roman ways than the Ostrogoths. This chapter discusses the extent of change in Italy during the sixth century.