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Samutkina L.A.
Germans in the early Byzantine chronicles
// History magazine - researches.
2011. № 3.
P. 48-55.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=58365
Samutkina L.A. Germans in the early Byzantine chronicles
Abstract:
The article analyzes the ideas of a German-Roman world of the Byzantine chronicler of the VI century Ioannes
Malals, and the anonymous author of “Paschal Chronicle” in the VII century. Basic models of the interpretation of the
history of the main Germanic tribes (Goth, Vandals, Franks, Herulians) and their role in the history of the Roman Empire,
as presented in the historical writings, are represented. The author also analyzes the characteristics of representation f the
leading characters of the German-Roman history in the early Byzantine chronicles, especially of Theodoric the Great as a
keeper of an idea of the Germanized Roman Empire.
Keywords:
history, early Byzantium, chronicle, semeiotic method of analysis, Ioannes Malals, “Easter chromicle”, Teutons, vandals, the Visigoth, the Ostrogoth.
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