Samutkina L.A. Germans in the early Byzantine chronicles

Abstract: The article analyzes the ideas of a German-Roman world of the Byzantine chronicler of the VI century Ioannes Malals, and the anonymous author of “Paschal Chronicle” in the VII century. Basic models of the interpretation of the history of the main Germanic tribes (Goth, Vandals, Franks, Herulians) and their role in the history of the Roman Empire, as presented in the historical writings, are represented. The author also analyzes the characteristics of representation f the leading characters of the German-Roman history in the early Byzantine chronicles, especially of Theodoric the Great as a keeper of an idea of the Germanized Roman Empire.

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