The volume by a British historian Thomas Hodgkin is devoted to a king of the Ostrogoths (471-526), ruler of Italy (493–526), regent of the Visigoths (511–526), and a viceroy of the (Eastern) Roman Empire, Theodoric the Goth. The author inquires into the ancestors, boyhood of the king, the southward migration, the conquest of Italy, and numerous other events of life of this outstanding personality.
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