Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-612) and index.
Contents
Approaching Theoderic the Great -- Theoderic in the eyes of contemporaries -- Who were the ostrogoths? -- From Attila to Theoderic : the ostrogoths in the Balkans -- The path West : the conquest of Italy -- The consolidation of power -- Theoderic's dual state -- Reluctant expansion? Theoderic's foreign policy -- A "golden age"? Italy under Gothic rule -- A heretic king : religious diversity and the imperative of orthodoxy -- From cooperation to conflict : Theoderic's final years -- The gothic kingdom in Italy after Theoderic -- Theoderic the great : metamorphoses of a figure.
