List of abbreviations

Foreword to the English edition

Translator's note

Approaching Theoderic the Great

Theoderic in the eyes of contemporaries

Who were the Ostrogoths?

From Attila to Theoderic : the Ostrogoths in the Balkans

The path west : the conquest of Italy

The consolidation of power

Theoderic's dual state

Reluctant expansion? Theoderic's foreign policy

A "golden age"? Italy under Gothic rule

A heretic king : religious diversity and the imperative of orthodoxy

From cooperation to conflict : Theoderic's final years

The Gothic kingdom in Italy after Theoderic

Theoderic the Great : metamorphoses of a figure

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