Theodoric the Great, King of the Ostrogoths

• ABOUT:
  • Columbia Encyclopedia:
  • 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
  • 1912 Catholic Encyclopedia: (Read with caution)
  • Encyclopedia of World History: The Ostrogoths in Italy. --- Bartleby

  • George Long: On the Edictum Theodorici. Entry from the 1875 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities about Theodoric's legal code. --- Univ. of Kansas

  • F. E. Sandbach: The Heroic Saga-Cycle of Dietrich of Bern. Complete 1906 book. --- Northvegr

  • Jordanes (short excerpt) on Theodoric. --- MSBP

  • The Nibelungenlied. Theodoric is a major character in the Germanic epic. Shumway translation, 1909. --- Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
  • The Hildebrandslied. Theodoric is a character in this Germanic poem. Anonymous(?) translation with Old German text. --- Northvegr

  • The Valesian Chronicle.
    • Excerpta Valesiana. Leipzig: Teubner, 1968.
    • Origo Constantini, Anonymus Valesianus I. Latin text with German translation by I. König (Verlag Trierer historische Forschungen, 1987).
    • J. N. Adams: The Text and Language of a Vulgar Latin Chronicle (Anonymus Valesianus II), (1976). London: Inst. Class. Stud., 1976.
    • Ingemar König: Aus der Zeit Theodorichs des Großen, (1997). Darmstadt: Wißenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1997.
    • Wilhelm Ohnensorge: Der Anonymus Valesii de Constantino, (1895). Kiel: Lipsius & Tischer, 1895.

  • Ravenna's International Heritage: The Mausoleum of Theodoric The king's tomb is Gothic Italy's greatest architectural legacy. --- Commune of Ravenna

• WORKS:
  • Letters (excerpts). Showing Theodoric's interest in preserving Roman civilisation, and his policy of religious tolerance. Hodgkin translation. --- MSBP
  • Edictum Theodorici Regis. Theodoric's law code (in Latin only). --- UPMF Grenoble
  • A Famous Anecdote: --- Anecdotage

• See also:
  • PEOPLE: Pope St. Gelasius I;