As relações entre romanos e visigodos em Jordanes: perspectivas tardo-antigas

Abstract

The present work has as its theme the formation of identities in the late-ancient period, comprising these formations, from the Roman-Visigoths relations, between the fifth and sixth centuries from the Gética of Jordanes, historian of the Byzantine Empire of the sixth century. The work is a historical report, originally published around 550, in Constantinople, entitled: De origine actibusque Getarum. It is intended to analyze from Jordanes Gética what were the author's perspectives on Roman-Visigothic relations, in particular to understand how the Visigoths were treated in this source. Mainly, based on the author, how can we link a late- ancient Visigothic identity. Therefore, we assume that the formation of this Visigothic identity in the fifth and sixth centuries is a political construction, which responds to the needs and interests of its leaders described in Gética. The methodology used involves documental analysis, where we will use the Spanish version of Gética, Entitled: Origen y gestas de los godos (2017), edited and translated by José María Sánchez Martín. Furthermore, we will work two important concepts in this research from “Late Antique” and “Identity”. In the first concept we will use Peter Brown to help in understanding the period, in addition to a conceptual definition of Late Antiquity from his work The World of Late Antiquity (1971). As for the second concept, we will think about the identity construction of Romans and barbarians in this period, based on historiography, where we will use the notions of identity in Walter Goffart, Walter Pohl and Patrick Geary to think about these issues.