The Goths, from the earliest times to the end of the Gothic dominion in Spain . COINS OF ATHALARIC. eloquence at Constantinople, to Italy for the purposeof making both the queen and her cousin bind them-selves by oath to fulfil their respective parts in thecompact. It is said that the Empress Theodora,whose jealousy had been excited by the accounts ofAmalaswinthas beauty and accomplishments, gavePeter private instructions of her own to managematters so that the Gothic queen should never cometo Constantinople. Before Peter had arrived at Ravenna, towards theend of 534, important events had take
The Goths, from the earliest times to the end of the Gothic dominion in Spain . COINS OF ATHALARIC. eloquence at Constantinople, to Italy for the purposeof making both the queen and her cousin bind them-selves by oath to fulfil their respective parts in thecompact. It is said that the Empress Theodora,whose jealousy had been excited by the accounts ofAmalaswinthas beauty and accomplishments, gavePeter private instructions of her own to managematters so that the Gothic queen should never cometo Constantinople. Before Peter had arrived at Ravenna, towards theend of 534, important events had taken place. On PLOTS AND COUNTERPLOTS. 20l October 3rd, Athalaric died of consumption. Hismother continued to rule the kingdom in her ownname, but she felt that her position was full of Goths had submitted unwillingly enough to afemale regent ; there was little hope that they wouldtolerate anything so unheard of as a female as the cowardly Theodahad was hated anddespised, he was the next heir to the crown, and withtheir new-fashioned ideas about heredit
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