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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 .
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 .
This was an extraordinary circumstance, because for the first time in the history of the empire barbaric people were settled within its borders and not direct subjected to imperial laws. In the reception and integration of these groups, a lot went wrong due to mismanagement and miscommunication of the Romans. [ 3 ]
The history of the Vandals is appended after that of the Goths, followed by a separate history of the Suevi. Isidore begins his history with a prologue, Laus Spaniae, praising the virtues of Spain. [1] It is here that he invents the phrase mater Spania (mother Spain). The rest of the work elaborates and defends the Gothic identity of a unified ...
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).
That’s the thrust of his new book, “Goth: A History”: Goth isn’t a way of dressing or a genre of music, but a lens through which to see the world. Goth is for everyone, Tolhurst writes ...
An important linguistic step was made by the Christian convert Ulfilas, who became a bishop to the Thervingi Goths in CE 341; he subsequently invented a Gothic alphabet and translated the scriptures from Greek into Gothic, creating a Gothic Bible, which is the earliest known translation of the Bible into a Germanic language. [21]
Throughout “Goth: A History,” Tolhurst shares charming anecdotes, like a scene where Bauhaus members enter a New York City bar for the first time, find singer Iggy Pop sitting there, and ...