Publication Date
Spring 2025
Subject Area
Section 2: Politics and Art: Ancient to Modern
Abstract
The first four centuries of the First Millennium AD witnessed the rapid development of political infrastructure among the Gothic people. Emerging from Scandinavia, Gothic group consolidated into more nuanced political confederations by the third century. Challenges to these power structures, both internal and external, became the catalyst for further consolidation. The adaptations of the third and fourth centuries resulted in the emergence of a more easily recognizable political unit: the Visigoths under a Balthi monarchy. These challenges, and forthcoming adaptations, places the Goths within the tradition of the Late Antique world. Late Antiquity, therefore, should not only be thought to be the transformation of the Classical World of Greco-Roman culture, but also the world of Barbaricum.
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Ancient History, Greek and Roman through Late Antiquity Commons, Ethnic Studies Commons, Medieval History Commons
