Theodoric the Great

Theodoric the Great was king of the Ostrogoths and ruler of Italy after defeating Odoacer. From Ravenna he preserved much of the Roman administration, worked with the senatorial elite and maintained a complex kingdom joining Gothic military power with late Roman institutions.

Gary Jennings’s Raptor places Theodoric the Great within a narrative shaped by political ambition and government, military command and battlefield decision-making, and empire, conquest and resistance. Ross Laidlaw’s Theoderic places Theodoric the Great within a narrative shaped by political ambition and government, court politics and dynastic power, and empire, conquest and resistance.