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We're probably going to see a restoration of the Western Empire in the late 500s or early 600s - now the Arab conquests might take all of Hispania from it as OTL, but that's doubtful as they'd be facing larger, better organised and equipped forces and would be at the end of their logistical...

The Visigoths had been Chalcedonian for over a century when they fell, so that really can't be taken as a factor.

I can see the Ostrogoths easily moving towards Chalcedonian Christianity. As for the cultural after-effects, I can see an "Italian" identity never forming and the OTL Italians retaining a sense of "Roman-ness" into modern times.