Table of Contents

Introduction
Merely an Ideology? - Gothic Identity in Ostrogothic Italy
The Ostrogoths and the Princely Civilization of the Fifth Century
Dwellings and Settlements in Gothic Italy
Germanic and Gothic Kinship Terminology
Social Relations in Southern Italy
The Agriculture of the Goths Between the First and Fifth Centuries AD
Theoderic's Monuments in Ravenna
The Last Rome: From the End of the Fifth to the End of the Sixth Century
Cuncta Italiae Membra Componere: Political Relations in Ostrogothic Italy
Goths Confronting Goths: Ostrogothic Political Relations in Hispania
Linguistic and Literary Traces of the Ostrogoths
The Role of Arianism in Ostrogothic Italy: The Evidence from Ravenna
Conclusion
Index