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A crucial source on Gothic history is the Getica of the 6th-century historian Jordanes, who may have been of Gothic descent. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] Jordanes claims to have based the Getica on an earlier lost work by Cassiodorus , but also cites material from fifteen other classical sources, including an otherwise unknown writer, Ablabius .
Greuthungi and Thervingi fought against Valens' Eastern Roman Empire between 376 and 382. [citation needed] Between about 376 and 382 the Gothic War against the Eastern Roman Empire, and in particular the Battle of Adrianople, in which the emperor Valens was killed, is commonly seen as important in the history of the Roman Empire, the first of a series of events over the next century that ...
The University of Sheffield's Centre for the History of the Gothic will also be supporting the event with their own synchronous Wikipedia editathon: Sheffield Gothic edit-a-thon Working together with liaison librarians, archivists & academic colleagues we will provide training on how to edit and participate in an open knowledge community.
Jordanes (/ dʒ ɔːr ˈ d eɪ n iː z /; Greek: Ιορδάνης), also written as Jordanis or Jornandes, [a] was a 6th-century Eastern Roman bureaucrat, [b] claimed to be of Gothic descent, who became a historian later in life. He wrote two works, one on Roman history and the other on the Goths .
The title of the Getica as it appears in a 9th-century manuscript of Lorsch Abbey now in the Vatican Library. De origine actibusque Getarum (The Origin and Deeds of the Getae [n 1]), [1] [2] [3] commonly abbreviated Getica, [4] written in Late Latin by Jordanes in or shortly after 551 AD, [5] [6] claims to be a summary of a voluminous account by Cassiodorus of the origin and history of the ...
The name is derived from the Gothicists' belief that the Goths had originated from Sweden, based on Jordanes' account of a Gothic urheimat in Scandinavia ().The Gothicists took pride in the Gothic tradition that the Ostrogoths and their king Theodoric the Great, who assumed power in the Roman Empire, had Scandinavian ancestry.
Differently to other Gothic origins stories however, Jordanes named at least two specific northern places where the ancestors of the Goths had lived more than a thousand years earlier. Scholars are uncertain about the precise origins of the various details of Jordanes' migration stories, and debate the extent to which real Gothic legends or the ...
The Gothic War of 376–382 was one of several Gothic Wars in Roman history in which the Goths fought against the Roman Empire.This particular conflict included the catastrophic Roman defeat at the Battle of Adrianople, and is commonly seen as a part— albeit a part of disputed significance— of the century of events leading to the Fall of the Western Roman Empire.