Rosamund: 6th-Century Regicide and Politics

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The sixth century was one of serious upheaval and shifting alliance. Get a glimpse of this world as we explore the life of Rosamund, a Gepid princess who witnessed the rise of the power of the Lombards, through their final defeat of her people and their invasion of Italy, before delivering a near fatal blow to it.

Podcaster: Nicole

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Further Reading

Walter Pohl, Kingdoms of the Empire: The Integration of Barbarians in Late Antiquity, Brill (1997)

Paul the Deacon, History of the Lombards, trans. William Dudley Foulke, University of Pennsylvania Press (1975).

​Music by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com)