... the fall of the Western Empire. The Germanic people never destroyed nor restored the Roman world- they just found a home for themselves within it. One emperor in the East however, was enough for them. Romanitas is a concept of wider emporium, resulting from the Romanisation of barbarians and barbarisation of Romans. There were various degrees of Rome-ness in existence. The Ostrogothic kingdom of Italy under Theodoric was contemporary to Clovis' Frankish Gaul; traditionally historians see the former as an imitation of Roman imperial rule and the latter as a disorganised nation ruled by a militant barbarian. However, it is perhaps more justified to say that the two were indeed very alike in their use of Roman ideology, custom and administration with the aim of strengthening and consolidating rule. Before Romanitas in both kingdoms is considered, it is important to stress that at the conception of these realms, the barbarians still recognised ...

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