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Christensen received his PhD in history from the University of Copenhagen in June 2002. His disputation was supervised by Ian N. Wood and Niels Lund. [2] His thesis, Cassiodorus, Jordanes and the History of the Goths, concerned the reliability of Getica by Jordanes and the latter's alleged chief source, the now lost Origo Gothica by Cassiodorus. [2]
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.
Concerning the origin of the Goths before the 3rd century, there is no consensus among scholars. [1] [2] It was in the 3rd century that the Goths began to be described by Roman writers as an increasingly important people north of the lower Danube and Black Sea, in the area of modern Romania, Republic of Moldova, and Ukraine.
In “Goth: A History," Tolhurst says he was inspired by the writings of Joan Didion — and so he weaves in first-person accounts while exploring goth music's origins from punk's anarchy. The ...
Other writers, such as Procopius, wrote works on the later history of the Goths. Getica has been the object of much critical review. Jordanes wrote in Late Latin rather than the classical Ciceronian Latin. According to his own introduction, he had only three days to review what Cassiodorus had written and so he must also have relied on his own ...
The Goths, from the Earliest Times to the End of the Gothic Dominion in Spain. General Books LLC. ISBN 978-1-150-60725-7. Jones, Arnold. Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Cambridge at the University Press, 1971. Jordanes (12 November 2013). The Origin and Deeds of the Goths. B & R Samizdat Express. p. 551. ISBN 978-1-4554-3671-2
During their long stay here, these Scythian Goths supposedly battled against Egyptian and Middle Eastern empires, creating the Median empire, some Goths became the ancestors of the Parthians (V-VI). Some of the Gothic women, when carried away, became the Amazons and held the kingdoms of Asia for almost a year before returning to the Goths (VII).
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] (/ ˈ ɡ ɛ t ɪ k ə /), 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 ...