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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Jordanes , fl. 6th cent., historian of the Ostrogoths, b. in the lower Danube region. His History of the Goths, an abridgment of the lost work of Cassiodorus , is the only extant source for Ostrogothic history and one of the few works written in Vulgar Latin. Author not available, JORDANES. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more

Cassiodorus
...time to copying old manuscripts, which were thus preserved. Among Cassiodorus's works were his History of the Goths, preserved in the abridgment by Jordanes , and a treatise on orthography. Bibliography: See J. J. O'Donnell, Cassiodorus (1979). Read more

Mordovia
...Mordva ) speak a Finno-Ugric language and are Orthodox Christians. The Mordovians were first mentioned by the Gothic historian Jordanes in the 6th cent. AD They were land tillers and herders, with close ties to the Slavs. In the mid-13th cent. they came under... Read more

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	Todo sobre los godos.(Origen y gestas de los godos)(TT: All about the Goths.)(TA: Origen y gestas de los godos)(Reseña) ; ...figura) de una previa y desaparecida obra de Casiodoro, la de Jordanes, personaje misterioso de origen godo o quizás alano, presenta...literario ya que no histórico. ** Origen y gestas de los godos Jordanes**. Cátedra. 262 págs. Read more
	Merrills, A. H.: History and Geography in Late Antiquity.(Book review) ; ...examines four major Latin historical writers, Orosius, Isidore, Jordanes and Bede--two Spaniards, a Constantinopolitan Goth and an Englishman...should be used by anyone interested in Orosius, Bede, Isidore or Jordanes. HAGITH SIVAN University of Kansas Read more
	After Rome's Fall: Narrators and Sources of Early Medieval History. ; ...concerned with the ideas about human collectivities that lie behind what historians have written about them since the time of Jordanes (17), and which she describes as the amplification of Goffart's challenging observations in two of his revisionist studies... Read more
	Die Vorstellung vom Norden und der Eurozentrismus. Eine Auswertung der patristischen und mittelalterlichen Literatur ; ...admirable despite the fact that the repetition of facts inevitably leads to a certain dismemberment of the overall argument. The chapters dedicated to Jordanes and Adam of Bremen are exemplary. For all these reasons as much as for the countless re Read more
	(book reviews) ; ...UP, 1988). Goffart boldly departed from the traditional way of seeing early medieval historians writing in Latin -- such as Jordanes, Paul the Deacon, and Gregory of Tours -- as enthusiastic chronicles of the barbarian peoples who took over the western provinces... Read more
	Barbarian Tides: The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire ; ...Now he reformulates the literary problem (Chapter 3) and reiterates the fact that the most significant text, the Getica of Jordanes, cannot be deployed as a receptacle of folk memory (Chapter 4). Its picture of Gothic history was a recent invention set down... Read more

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