| Description |
1 online resource (293 pages) : illustrations, map, genealogical table |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Author's Note -- Map of Europe and the Mediterranean World at the Beginning of Amalasuintha's Regency, Late a.d. 526 -- Genealogy. The Family of Theoderic -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Mother, Regent, and Queen: Amalasuintha and the Institutions of Power -- Chapter 2. Amalasuintha at the Palace of Ravenna: The Making of a Queen -- Chapter 3. A Regent with Imperial Ambitions -- Chapter 4. Balancing Gothic Tradition with Roman Ideals -- Chapter 5. Amalasuintha: A Meeting Point Between Kingdoms and Empire -- Epilogue. Amalasuintha's Legacy in Early Medieval Italy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
| Summary |
As mother, as regent, and as queen, Amalasuintha struggled at the palace of Ravenna to maintain the Ostrogothic dynasty. Massimiliano Vitiello demonstrates the ways in which her life shows the influence of both Western and Eastern imperial models on the formation of female political power in the post-Roman world |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-286) and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Amalasuntha, Queen of the Ostrogoths, 498-535.
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| SUBJECT |
Amalasuntha, Queen of the Ostrogoths, 498-535 fast |
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Amalasuntha Ostgotenreich, Königin -535 gnd |
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Ostrogoths -- History
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Queens -- Italy -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Italy.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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Ostrogoths
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Queens
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Herrscherin
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Italy
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Ostgotenreich
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017005982 |
| ISBN |
0812294343 |
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9780812294347 |
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