September 29 -- Theoderic<br>
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the settlement of the Ostrogoths in Italy<br>
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constitutional status:<br>
**master of soldiery and patrician<br>
**"king"<br>
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Goths and Romans<br>
**aristocrats and nostalgia<br>
**Arianism<br>
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Dynasty:<br>
*Eutharic, Athalaric, Theodahad<br>
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He <i>could</i> have been a Charlemagne<br>
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Relations with Franks, Visigoths, Vandals<br>
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Justinian:  529/527/565<br>
*Wars with Persia, Vandals, Italy (535-554), Spain<br>
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Italy after Justinian<br>
*the "new class" (no Senate)<br>
*Balkanization<br>
*the Lombards<br>