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From Hutton Webster's, Early European History (1917); edited for this on-line publication, by ELLOPOS
X. WESTERN EUROPE DURING THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES, 476-962 A.D.
» Contents of this Chapter
The Ostrogoths in Italy, 488-553 A.D. * The Lombards in Italy, 568-774 A.D. * The Franks under Clovis and His Successors * The Franks under Charles Martel and Pepin the Short * The Reign of Charlemagne, 768-814 A.D. * Charlemagne and the Revival of the Roman Empire, 800 A.D. * Disruption of Charlemagne's Empire, 814-870 A.D. * Germany under Saxon Kings, 919-973 A.D. * Otto the Great and the Restoration of the Roman Empire, 962 A.D. * The Anglo-Saxons in Britain, 449-839 A.D. * Christianity in the British Isles * The Fusion of Germans and Romans
THE OSTROGOTHS IN ITALY, 488-553 A.D.
TRANSITION TO THE MIDDLE AGES
We are not to suppose that the settlement of Germans within the Roman Empire ended with the deposition of Romulus Augustulus, near the close of the fifth century. The following centuries witnessed fresh invasions and the establishment of new Germanic states. The study of these troubled times leads us from the classical world to the world of medieval Europe, from the history of antiquity to the history of the Middle Ages.
THE OSTROGOTHS UNDER THEODORIC
The kingdom which Odoacer established on Italian soil did not long endure. It was soon overthrown by the Ostrogoths. At the time of the "fall" of Rome in 476 A.D. they occupied a district south of the middle Danube, which the government at Constantinople had hired them to defend. The Ostrogoths proved to be expensive and dangerous allies. When, therefore, their chieftain, Theodoric, offered to lead his people into Italy and against Odoacer, the Roman emperor gladly sanctioned the undertaking.
THE MAKING OF EUROPE / EARLY EUROPEAN HISTORY: Table of Contents
url: www.ellopos.net/politics/european-history/default.asp
Cf. The Ancient Greece * The Ancient Rome
Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium) * Western Medieval Europe * Renaissance in Italy
