Un Occidente che Guarda ad Est. Re Teoderico, il Senato di Roma, i Suoi Vescovi

The focus of this volume is on the forms and achievements of a close alliance between King Theoderic, the Roman aristocracy, and the bishops of Rome. From the accounts of the ambassadorships sent to the East, the copious episcopal correspondence, and the documents of the chanceries, the strategies devised, the goals achieved, but also the failures, that accompanied the attempts of interaction between Theoderic’s West and the East of Zeno, Anastasius, and Justin, as well as those experienced by Amalasunta with Justinian, shine through. The Italy ruled by the Goth king proposed itself as a model of civilization, while the city on the Bosporus displayed both riches and fragility, made splendid by the buildings that Anicia Giuliana restored and built ex novo, placed continuously under siege by the Thracian Vitalian. [...]