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The Ostrogoths were actually not bad rulers
The Ostrogoths were actually not bad rulers
The Ostrogoths were in fact excellent rulers and were looked upon as a vast improvement over the prior administration
As my university professor put it too us nearly 50 years ago
"What happened the day after Odoacer deposed the last emperor (Romulus Augustulus) ?"
Nothing too much really
Hardly anyone actually noticed
The garbage still got collected
The pot holes repaired
The aqueducts maintained .
The one real change
Taxes went down !
Ostrogoth kings were perfectly happy to put the name and image of an emperor on the coinage just as long as he stayed put in Constantinople and kept his rapacious tax collectors to himself !
The Magna Carta which forms the basis of our modern US Constitution was founded on "Barbarian" law not Roman law
Barbarian kings received their legitimacy from those they ruled over
Kings were elected !
Roman emperors claimed their rights were handed down from 'above'
To impugn the emperor was an insult to the deity
So called "Barbarian" kings get a bad rap
To those that lived
They were a vast improvement over a corrupt and inept empire
People wanted protection !
Theodoric delivered it
