The Gothic History of Jordanes in English Version
Title | The Gothic History of Jordanes in English Version PDF eBook |
Author | Jordanes |
Publisher | |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | Europe |
ISBN |
The Gothic history of Jordanes
Title | The Gothic history of Jordanes PDF eBook |
Author | Iordanes (Gothus.) |
Publisher | Arx Publishing, LLC |
Pages | 199 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1889758779 |
Cassiodorus, Jordanes and the History of the Goths
Title | Cassiodorus, Jordanes and the History of the Goths PDF eBook |
Author | Arne Søby Christensen |
Publisher | Museum Tusculanum Press |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9788772897103 |
This book is a study in the myth of the origins and early history of the Goths as told in the Getica written by Jordanes in AD 551. Jordanes claimed they emigrated from the island of Scandza (Sweden) in 1490 BC, thus giving them a history of more than two thousand years. He found this narrative in Cassiodorus' Gothic history, which is now lost. The present study demonstrates that Cassiodorus and Jordanes did not base their accounts on a living Gothic tradition of the past, as the Getica would have us believe. On the contrary, they got their information only from the Graeco-Roman literature. The Greeks and Romans, however, did not know of the Goths until the middle of the third century AD. Consequently, Cassiodorus and Jordanes created a Gothic history partly through an erudite exploitation of the names of foreign peoples, and partly by using the narratives about other peoples' history as if they belonged to the Goths. The history of the Migrations therefore must be reconsidered.
The Gothic History of Jordanes in English Version
Title | The Gothic History of Jordanes in English Version PDF eBook |
Author | Jordanes |
Publisher | |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | Germanic peoples |
ISBN |
History of the Goths
Title | History of the Goths PDF eBook |
Author | Herwig Wolfram |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 644 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780520069831 |
Provides an overview on the formation of the Gothic tribes, their migrations, and the later history of the Ostrogothic and Visigothic settlements.
The Gothic History of Jordanes
Title | The Gothic History of Jordanes PDF eBook |
Author | Jordanes |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | HISTORY |
ISBN |
This book by famed sixth-century historian Jordanes offers a history, written less than a century after the death of Attila, on the various barbarian tribes' dealings with the Western Roman Empire and their contributions to the fall of the Empire.
The Gothic History of Jordanes
Title | The Gothic History of Jordanes PDF eBook |
Author | Jordanes |
Publisher | |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | Germanic peoples |
ISBN |