AmalasuinthaIn this book, Massimiliano Vitiello situates the life and career of the Ostrogothic queen Amalasuintha (c. 494 5 535), daughter of Theoderic the Great, in the context of the transitional time, after the fall of Rome, during which new dynastic regimes were experimenting with various forms of political legitimation. A member of the Gothic elite raised in the Romanized palace of Ravenna, Amalasuintha married her father's chosen successor and was set to