• As If From This People I Traced my Origin: Hypotheses on the Life of Jordanes

    Author(s):
    Otávio Luiz Vieira Pinto (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    Ancient Near East
    Subject(s):
    History, Ancient, Ethnology--Study and teaching, Middle Ages
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Early Middle Ages, Goths, Jordanes, Late antiquity, Ancient history, Ethnic studies, Medieval history
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6ZS8S
    Abstract:
    The aim of this paper is to discuss the authorial persona of Jordanes: who he was, what was his religious/political position and how he identified himself. With this information, frequently overlooked or glossed over by Late Antique and Early Medieval scholarship, I intend to bring his famous work, called Getica, under updated scrutiny. By increasing awareness of the author, we can look at the Getica and perceive different goals and a different agenda. By leaving the “Gothic” identity behind and assuming that his ethnic background was more fluid or mixed, the Getica ceases to be just a history of the Goths and becomes an analysis of the historical development of Eastern regions and how different people, from Goths to Huns, tried to shape the fate of the place.
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    Published as:
    Journal article     Show details
    Publisher:
    SAEMED
    Pub. Date:
    2017
    Journal:
    Calamus
    Volume:
    1
    Issue:
    1
    Page Range:
    197 - 222
    ISSN:
    2545-627X
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    7 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved

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