CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION. G. Ausenda, F. Maraz

MERELY AN IDEOLOGY? - GOTHIC IDENTITY IN OSTROGOTHIC . P. Heater. . 31 Discussion...... 60

THE AND THE PRINCELY OF THE FIFTH CENTURY. M. Kazanski 81 Appendices...... 91 Discussion...... 100

DWELLINGS AND SETTLEMENTS IN GOTHIC ITALY. G. P. Brogiolo.. .113 Introduction. Castella. Brescia and : two converging archaeological models. Changes in building. New building models. Continuity in use of ancient buildings. Production and exchange. From archaeological evidence to an interpretive model. Discussion...... 133

GERMANIC AND GOTHIC KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY. W. Aubrichs. . 143 Introduction. The Structure of Proto-Indo-European (PIE) Kinship Terminology. Germanic kinship terminology. Gothic and West-Germanic kinship terminology compared. Discussion...... 173

SOCIAL RELATIONS IN SOUTHERN ITALY. G. Noye. . . 183 The economic and social substratum at the end of the fifth century. The Ostrogothic rule. Discussion...... 202

THE OF THE BETWEEN THE FIRST AND FIFTH CENTURIES AD. A. Kokowski. . . . 221 Introduction. Quality of the sources about the history of agriculture in central and eastern . The agriculture of the Goths - a preliminary synthesis. Conclusions. Discussion...... 236

THEODERIC'S MONUMENTS IN . /. Wood. . . .249 Discussion...... 263 HE LAST : FROM THE END OF THE FIFTH TO THE END OF THE SIXTH CENTURY. F. Marazzi. . • • • • .279 The problem: imagining the "end" of a city. Rome and the year 476: the City and the end of the Western Empire. Condition of the City at the end of the fifth century. The material structure of the City. Availability of goods and consumption. Power equilibria in the City between the end of the fifth and the first third of the sixth century and the composition of the population. Conclusions. Discussion...... 303

CUNCTAITALIAE MEMBRA COMPONERE: POLITICAL RELATIONS IN OSTROGOTHIC ITALY. S. Barnish .317 Discussion...... 337

GOTHS CONFRONTING GOTHS: OSTROGOTHIC POLITICAL RELATIONS IN . P. Diaz & R. Valverde. . . . .353 A single origin and two different peoples. Development of relations between Ostrogoths and . The Ostrogoths dominate the Visigoths. The Visigoths recover political authority. Conclusion. Discussion...... 376

LINGUISTIC AND LITERARY TRACES OF THE OSTROGOTHS. D. H. Green . 387 Discussion...... 404

THE ROLE OF IN OSTROGOTHIC ITALY: THE EVIDENCE FROM RAVENNA. T. S. Brown. ... . 417 Conclusion...... 423 Discussion...... 427

CONCLUSION 443 Location in space and time. Kinship and marriage. Jural relations and conflict. Urban economy and trade. Political relations. Symbolic life. Religion.

INDEX 481 PPN: 111152461 Titel: The ostrogoths from the to the sixth century : an ethnographic perspective; [papers presented at the Seventh Conference on "Studies in Historical Archaeoethnology" organized by the center for Interdisciplinary Research on Social Stress, which was held in Marino from 8th September to 12th September 2000] / ed. by Sam J. Barnish .... - . - Woodbridge : Boydell Press, 2007 ISBN: 978-1-84383-074-0 Bibliographischer Datensatz im SWB-Verbund