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A Companion to Ostrogothic Italy is a concise yet comprehensive survey of Italy's first barbarian kingdom, the Ostrogothic state (ca. 489-554 CE). The volume's 18 essays cover both traditional topics (such as the Ostrogothic army) and hitherto under-examined subjects (for example Italy's environmental history), and are designed for new students and specialists.

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The period of Ostrogothic rule in Italy is a liminal one... Given this chronological uncertainty along with the ongoing debates over what precisely the year 476 meant to whom (and when), the editors have wisely opted for a long and wide approach to the topic, encompassing everything from Odoacer through the Lombard invasion, thereby including the full sweep of the Ostrogothic Kingdom both inside and outside of Italy...The current volume is a welcome guide to Ostrogothic Italy... [it] is free from typographical errors and enhanced throughout by high quality maps and images, especially in the chapter on art and architecture. The editors are also to be commended for producing such a consistent and even-handed volume despite several intense disagreements that currently divide the field. Marion Kruse, in: Medioevo Greco 17 (2017), 450-52.

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Jonathan J. Arnold, BA, University of Maine and MA, Ph.D. University of Michigan, is Associate Professor of History at the University of Tulsa. His publications include Theoderic and the Roman Imperial Restoration (Cambridge, 2014). M. Shane Bjornlie, MA, Ph.D. Princeton University, is Associate Professor of History at Claremont McKenna College and a former Fellow of the American Academy in Rome (2011). His publications include Politics and Tradition between Rome, Ravenna, and Constantinople (Cambridge, 2013). Kristina Sessa, AB, Princeton University and MA, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, is Associate Professor of History at the Ohio State University. Her publications include The Formation of Papal Authority in Late Antique Italy: Roman Bishops and the Domestic Sphere (Cambridge, 2012).

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