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Title: Ravenna, a study
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Hutton, Edward, 1875-
Subjects: Architecture
Publisher: London, J.M. Dent New York, E.P. Dutton
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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estabHshing a new kingdom, a new nation of» Goths and Romans in Italy^^iftVhy ? y( The answer to that question must be igiven and it is this:Theodoric and his Goths were Arians7iMuch more than raceor nationality rehgion forms and inspires a people, welds theminto one or divides them asunder. Even though there hadbeen no visible difference in culture and civiHsation betweenthe Goths, when for a generation they had been settled southof the Alps, and the Romans of the plain and of Italy, never-theless they would have remained barbarians, for Arianism atthis time was the certain mark of barbarism.^ Had thebarbarians not fallen into this strange heresy, had the Goths, 1 Cassiodorus, op cit. iii. 9. Trs. Hodgkin, op. cit. Cassiodorus, op. cit. v. 8. ^ Heathenism even more so of course. It cannot be altogether acoincidence that those barbarians which first became Catholic, thoughthey had been ruder and rougher than the rest, were destined to re-establish the empire in the West—the Franks.
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THE MAUSOLEUM OF )HEODORIC. THEODORIC 69 above all, been Catholics, who knows what new nation mighthave arisen upon the ruin of the Western empire to create,more than five hundred years before, as things were, it wasto blossom, the rose of the Middle Age ? But this was not to be. The work of Theodoric, a usefulwork as we shall see, was serving quite another purpose thanthat of establishing a new Gothic kingdom. As for him andhis government, they were utterly to pass away and byreason of the religion they professed. The first blow at the endurance and security of theOstrogothic hegemony was the conversion of Clovis toCatholicism in 496. This changed the political relations,not only of every state in Gaul, but of every state in Europe,and enormously to the disadvantage of the Arians. Thesecond was the reconciliation, in 519, of the pope and theemperor, which rightly understood was the death warrant ofthe Gothic kingdom. -Had tte Gothe been Catholic, eitherthat reconciliation would not h

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