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Jordanes: Romana and Getica (Translated Texts for Historians LUP) by Jordanes, Peter Van Nuffelen, Lieve Van Hoof (transl.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Of Gothic descent, Jordanes wrote a unique setof histories. The Getica narrates thehistory of the Goths from their earliest origins until the middle of the sixthcentury. Building on the lost history of Cassiodorus, it is the earliestexample of a history told from the perspective of one of the barbarian peoplesestablishing kingdoms in the fifth and sixth centuries. It had great influenceon later medieval historians, on national histories of the nineteenth centuryand on modern accounts of Gothic h
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- Author
- Jordanes, Peter Van Nuffelen, Lieve Van Hoof (transl.)
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781802078213
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Literary Fiction, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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