Tecniche poliorcetiche e macchine nell’assedio di Petra (Lazica) del 551 d.C. by Francesco Fiorucci

“…The exhaustive description of siege operations by Procopius of Caesarea permits a comparison both with Greek and Roman technical treatises on siege warfare and with the passage by the same author regarding the ram which the Goths used to siege Rome in 537-538 AD.…”
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Sidoine et les Barbares by Jean-Marie Pailler

“…The paper tries to evaluate the notions of barbarian and barbarism compared with the use made of them by Augustine and other Christian writers, and to measure the similarities and differences of Sidonius’ behaviour towards the Goths of Theodoric and then to those of Euric, and of that of his friend Syagrius towards the Burgundians.…”
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THE RENAISSANCE EDITIONS OF FESTUS: IDENTIFYING PAULUS DIACONUS by Damiano Acciarino

“…The purpose of this study is to reconstruct the cultural path followed by the antiquarians and philologists who were able to make this important discovery <em>ante litteram</em>: by examining the many Renaissance editions of Festus, the perception of Paul’s authorship emerges, revealing how scholars realised that the unidentified <em>Paulus</em> was in fact the <em>Diaconus</em> historian of the Goths and Lombards.…”
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L’Hispania dans la Chronica naiarensis by Hélène Sirantoine

“…Ainsi en va-t-il de l’Hispania, notion-clé de l’idéologie isidorienne, terre providentielle des Goths et motif idéalisé de l’ardeur au combat des souverains chrétiens de l’après 711. …”
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A Sacral and Mythical Landscape: The Crimea in the East European Context by Kerstin S. Jobst

“…German-speaking intellectuals in the 19th century developed an “enthusiasm for the Crimean Goths”.They believed that they had discovered their ancestors in the Gothic Crimean inhabitants, who had been extinct since early modern times. …”
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NOTES ON THE RES GESTAE AND HISTORIOGRAPHICAL VIEWS TOWARDS THE BATTLE OF ADRIANOPLE (378 A.D.) by Mehmet Mehmet Yilmazata

“…In light of the sources, the Roman-Gothic conflict, even if having resulted in a devastating defeat for the Romans, did not yet challenge the ideal of the Roman state as a hegemon power. The Goths did not seek to infiltrate the Roman Empire in order to carve out their own realm, but even after the battle rather sought to gain permanent and secure settlement within the system of the Roman state. …”
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Roman law in Spain prior to the Lex Wisigothorum by Kofanov, Leonid

“…The most active involvement of the Spanish in Roman politics (including the Roman emperors descending from this region) made the province an important propagator of Roman legal and political tradition to the rest of the western world, whilst the consequent assimilation of the Goths (Roman allies for more that a century) helped Spain to become the last outpost of roman law in Europe until the Arabian invasion, and the Breviarium of Alaric is a good evidence to this process.…”
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<<Custodia legum civilitatis est indicium>>: Teoderico l'Amalo e la civiltà romana by Biagio Saitta

“…For this reason he favoured actions such as mixed marriages which helped the Goths enter into the romanitas and encouraged the implantation of the Roman civilization amongst the Gepids. …”
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Five Anastasiae and Two Febroniae: A Guided Tour in the Maze of Anastasia Legends. Part One. The Oriental Dossier by Basil Lourié

“…The cult of this second Anastasia was backed by Monothelite Syrians, whereas the fifth-century cult of Anastasia in Constantinople was backed by the Goths. Transformations of Anastasia cults in the era of state Monothelitism were interwoven with a new Syriac cult of Febronia of Nisibis that appeared in the capital shortly after its creation in Syria in a Severian “Monophysite” milieu.…”
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On Anthimus and his work by Maciej Kokoszko

“…Its author, Anthimus, was a Greek physician exiled from Constantinople, first seeking refuge among the Arrian Goths, and later sent to the Catholic Franks on diplomatic missions. …”
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Literatura e historia local: escribir los pasados histórico-míticos en la novela de Frontera Soledad entretenida (1638-1644) de Juan de Barrionuevo y Moya by Christine Marguet

“…Cette histoire, ramenée à la Frontière qui sépare terres chrétienne et musulmane, comporte plusieurs strates, également mises en valeur dans l’historiographie générale et locale : Romains, Goths et Reconquête. Rare – unique ? – roman de la période dont l’action est située dans un passé éloigné, il fictionnalise des problématiques également présentes dans l’historiographie locale, comme la relation entre pouvoir local et central, et exalte l’héroïsme historique des localités de l’ancienne Frontière. …”
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‘Deform[ing] Hercules’ in Wilkie Collins’s Antonina by Delphine Cadwallader-Bouron

“…For one who, as Henry James once said, was most gifted to stage “those most mysterious of mysteries, the mysteries that are at our own doors », Collins could not have chosen a more remote scenery for Antonina, both historically and geographically (Ancient Rome at the time of its siege by the Goths). And yet, despite its sometimes heavy, lengthy, even clumsy passages and its apparent and complete Otherness, this early novel is fascinating in what it offers its readers―the metamorphosis of young Collins into a powerful writer, and, more importantly, the very origins of what became his most successful sensational ingredients. …”
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About the Date of the Crimean Gothia Creation by Aleksandr I. Aybabin

“…Maenchen-Helfen, John Chrysostom also sent missionaries to the basin of Danube to Goths who were “talking the same language as those” (ὁμόγλωττοι κείνοις). …”
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Codex Argenteus and political ideology in the Ostrogothic kingdom by Marta Bigus

“…The key elements of the new propaganda were the glorification of both the Amal family and Gothicness in general, expressed especially in Cassiodorus’s letters and presumably in his History of the Goths. These texts combine the imperial ambitions of the Ostrogothic king with his Gothic cultural self-consciousness. …”
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Konstantynopol i jego mieszkańcy w "Nowej Historii" Zosimosa by Małgorzata B. Leszka

“…Its inhabitants, whenever needed, can face serious threats (Gainas’ struggle with Goths), but their reactions are unpredictable and difficult to tame (Procopios’ usurpation, city unrest accompanying the deposition of John Chrysostom from bishopric). …”
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Bronze railing from Mediana by Vasić Miloje R.

“…The railing was buried in 378 after battle of Adrianople and invasion of Goths in diocese Dacia.…”
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Exercitus barbarorum. Organizacja i działania wojsk ludów germańskich osiadłych w V i VI wieku w basenie Morza Śródziemnego by Marek Wilczyński

“…The preserved evidence relating to the military power of the Vandals and Goths is relatively good, much less is known about the Svevs. …”
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Early Byzantine Fortification Buildings on the Eastern Side of the Plateau of Eski-Kermen by Aleksandr Il’ich Aibabin

“…According to N. I. Repnikov, the Goths built the castle atop the plateau of Eski-Kermen in the late fifth century. …”
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On the Reform of the Administrative System of Byzantium’s Possessions in the Crimea in the Last Quarter of the 6th Century by Aleksandr I. Aybabin

“…Aluşta) and Gorzoubites (mod. city Gurzuf) and fortified a country or region named Dori in the mountainous area, where the Goths and the Alans lived. In 571 or after 572 the steppes bordering with the Bosporus between Meotid and the Caucasian mountains were captured by the Turks. …”
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Translatio imperii: The Old English Orosius and the rise of Wessex by Leneghan, F

“…I then outline how the translator refashioned Orosius’s ‘universal history’ into a work of imperial history which is more directly concerned with Rome’s long and difficult rise than with its fall to the Goths in 410. I conclude that the Orosius might have encouraged early tenth-century Anglo-Saxon readers to interpret the recent rise of Wessex to overlordship in Britain as part of an ongoing process of translatio imperii, the transference or succession of empires, contingent on the Christian virtue of its rulers.…”