Ravenna, a Study
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Upon thismaterialism, the material benefits that Theodoric had undoubtedlyconferred upon the Italian people, Totila, that formidable chieftainwho now came to the front as the Gothic leader, based his appeal andhis hope of victory. "Surely, " he says to the Roman senate, "you mustremember sometimes in these evil days the benefits which you receivednot so very long ago at the hands of Theodoric and Amalasuntha. " Andagain: "What harm did the Goths ever do you? And tell me then whatgood you receiv...ed from Justinian the emperor?... Has he not compelledyou to give an account of every _solidus_ which you received from thepublic funds even under the Gothic kings? All harassed andimpoverished as you are by the war, has he not compelled you to pay tothe Greeks the full taxes which could be levied in a time ofprofoundest peace?" Totila based his appeal upon the materialwell-being of the people. It was a formidable appeal; it nearlysucceeded. That it did not succeed, though it had so much in itsfavour, is the best testimony we could have to the real nature of thewar, which was not a struggle between two races or even primarily, atany rate, between barbarism and civilisation, but something greaterand more fundamental, a fight to the death between two religionsArianism and Catholicism, upon the result of which the whole future ofEurope depended.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Upon thismaterialism, the material benefits that Theodoric had undoubtedlyconferred upon the Italian people, Totila, that formidable chieftainwho now came to the front as the Gothic leader, based his appeal andhis hope of victory. "Surely, " he says to the Roman senate, "you mustremember sometimes in these evil days the benefits which you receivednot so very long ago at the hands of Theodoric and Amalasuntha. " Andagain: "What harm did the Goths ever do you? And tell me then whatgood you receiv...ed from Justinian the emperor?... Has he not compelledyou to give an account of every _solidus_ which you received from thepublic funds even under the Gothic kings? All harassed andimpoverished as you are by the war, has he not compelled you to pay tothe Greeks the full taxes which could be levied in a time ofprofoundest peace?" Totila based his appeal upon the materialwell-being of the people. It was a formidable appeal; it nearlysucceeded. That it did not succeed, though it had so much in itsfavour, is the best testimony we could have to the real nature of thewar, which was not a struggle between two races or even primarily, atany rate, between barbarism and civilisation, but something greaterand more fundamental, a fight to the death between two religionsArianism and Catholicism, upon the result of which the whole future ofEurope depended.
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