![]() For a list of titles in the series, see end of book. The series brings together outstanding work by medieval scholars over a wide range of human endeavour extending from political economy to the history of ideas. Dobson and Dr Rosamond McKitterick as Advisory Editors. Luscombe now acts as General Editor of the Fourth Series, with Professor R. DOBSON Professor of Medieval History, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Christ's College ROSAMOND McKITTERICK Reader in Early Medieval European History, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Newnham College The series Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought was inaugurated by G. LUSCOMBE Leverhulme Personal Research Professor of Medieval History, University of Sheffield Advisory Editors: R. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought PEOPLE AND IDENTITY IN OSTROGOTHIC ITALY, 489-554 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought Fourth Series General Editor: D. The inquiry suggests new ways of understanding the appearance of barbarian groups and the end of the Western Roman Empire, as well as proposing new models of regional and professional loyalty and group cohesion in the period. The chapters successively examine these ideologies and their impact upon "Goths" and "Romans," that is, the Italians who inhabited the regions of Italy in a time of political, social and religious upheaval. The prosopographical appendix to this book groups together evidence for 379 individuals who could be considered "Goths" under various institutional ideologies at play in sixth-century Italy. Ostrogothic Italy provides a large and comparatively neglected body of data on individual behavior and group allegiances. Since this ethnography was classicizing, biblical and, above all, ideological, the ancient texts that use it must be constantly questioned and compared with other evidence for ancient communal behavior. In contrast, this case-study of the Goths of Italy in the late fifth and early sixth century begins from the assumption that the ethnographic language used to describe the barbarians makes them look like ethnic groups to twentieth-century observers. Did the cultural transformation of the later Roman Empire really involve migrating barbarian tribes bearing a distinguishable Germanic culture? Previous studies of this question have begun from the assumption that barbarian groups were ethnic groups or the seeds of ethnic groups.
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