IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 508: The Impact of Ostrogothic Warfare on Late Roman Italy
Tuesday 2 July 2019, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele, Vakgroep Geschiedenis, Universiteit Gent |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Guy Halsall, Department of History, University of York |
| Paper 508-a | 'State of Emergency': Odoacer and the Defense of Late Roman Italy (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Byzantine Studies, Military History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 508-b | War, Displacement, and 'Disaster Ecclesiology' in Ostrogothic Italy (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Geography and Settlement Studies, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 508-c | The Gothic War and the Anxieties of Identity (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Daily Life, Mentalities, Social History |
| Abstract | Of all successor-kingdoms, Ostrogothic Italy showed the greatest continuity with the western Roman empire at the level of administration, culture, and geopolitical power.This is especially true for Theoderic, who managed to exert an unrivalled hegemony over Transalpine regions. Yet, Ostrogothic continuity with Rome and Theoderic's power were both forged and dismantled in two of the most vicious and consequential wars of Late Antiquity, the understudied war between Theoderic and Odoacer (489-493) and the Gothic War (535-554). This session will look at governmental, ecclesiastic, cultural, and local community responses to the fall-out of warfare in Italy during this era. |